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by: Douglas F. Easton, Karen A. Pooley, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Deborah Thompson, Dennis G. Ballinger, Jeffery P. Struewing, Jonathan Morrison, Helen Field, Robert Luben, Nicholas Wareham, Shahana Ahmed, Catherine S. Healey, Richard Bowman, Kerstin B. Meyer, Christopher A. Haiman, Laurence K. Kolonel, Brian E. Henderson, Loic Le Marchand, Paul Brennan, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Valerie Gaborieau, Fabrice Odefrey, Chen Y. Shen, Pei E. Wu, Hui C. Wang, Diana Eccles, Gareth D. Evans, Julian Peto, Olivia Fletcher, Nichola Johnson, Sheila Seal, Michael R. Stratton, Nazneen Rahman, Georgia C. Trench, Stig E. Bojesen, Borge G. Nordestgaard, Christen K. Axelsson, Montserrat G. Closas, Louise Brinton, Stephen Chanock, Jolanta Lissowska, Beata Peplonska, Heli Nevanlinna, Rainer Fagerholm, Hannaleena Eerola, Daehee Kang, Keun Y. Yoo, Dong Y. Noh, Sei H. Ahn, David J. Hunter, Susan E. Hankinson, David G. Cox, Per Hall, Sara Wedren, Jianjun Liu, Yen L. Low, Natalia Bogdanova, Peter Schurmann, Thilo Dork, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Catharina E. Jacobi, Peter Devilee, Jan G. M. Klijn, Alice J. Sigurdson, Michele M. Doody, Bruce H. Alexander, Jinghui Zhang, Angela Cox, Ian W. Brock, Gordon Macpherson, Malcolm W. R. Reed, Fergus J. Couch, Ellen L. Goode, Janet E. Olson, Hanne M. Heijboer, Ans van den Ouweland, Andre Uitterlinden, Fernando Rivadeneira, Roger L. Milne, Gloria Ribas, Anna G. Neira, Javier Benitez, John L. Hopper, Margaret Mccredie, Melissa Southey, Graham G. Giles, Chris Schroen, Christina Justenhoven, Hiltrud Brauch, Ute Hamann, Yon D. Ko, Amanda B. Spurdle, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Arto Mannermaa, Veli M. Kosma, Vesa Kataja, Jaana Hartikainen, Nicholas E. Day, David R. Cox, Bruce A. J. Ponder
Nature, Vol. 447, No. 7148. (2007), pp. 1087-1093.

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Breast cancer exhibits familial aggregation, consistent with variation in genetic susceptibility to the disease. Known susceptibility genes account for less than 25% of the familial risk of breast cancer, and the residual genetic variance is likely to be due to variants conferring more moderate risks. To identify further susceptibility alleles, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study in 4,398 breast cancer cases and 4,316 controls, followed by a third stage in which 30 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were tested for confirmation in 21,860 cases and 22,578 controls from 22 studies. We used 227,876 SNPs that were estimated to correlate with 77% of known common SNPs in Europeans at r2 $>$ 0.5. SNPs in five novel independent loci exhibited strong and consistent evidence of association with breast cancer (P $<$ 10E-7). Four of these contain plausible causative genes (FGFR2, TNRC9, MAP3K1 and LSP1). At the second stage, 1,792 SNPs were significant at the P $<$ 0.05 level compared with an estimated 1,343 that would be expected by chance, indicating that many additional common susceptibility alleles may be identifiable by this approach.


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