Download PDF

Cancer Causes & Control

Publication date: 2016-05-01
Volume: 27 Pages: 679 - 693
Publisher: Rapid Communications of Oxford Ltd.

Author:

Zhao, Zhiguo
Wen, Wanqing ; Michailidou, Kyriaki ; Bolla, Manjeet K ; Wang, Qin ; Zhang, Ben ; Long, Jirong ; Shu, Xiao-Ou ; Schmidt, Marjanka K ; Milne, Roger L ; García-Closas, Montserrat ; Chang-Claude, Jenny ; Lindstrom, Sara ; Bojesen, Stig E ; Ahsan, Habibul ; Aittomäki, Kristiina ; Andrulis, Irene L ; Anton-Culver, Hoda ; Arndt, Volker ; Beckmann, Matthias W ; Beeghly-Fadiel, Alicia ; Benitez, Javier ; Blomqvist, Carl ; Bogdanova, Natalia V ; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise ; Brand, Judith ; Brauch, Hiltrud ; Brenner, Hermann ; Burwinkel, Barbara ; Cai, Qiuyin ; Casey, Graham ; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia ; Couch, Fergus J ; Cox, Angela ; Cross, Simon S ; Czene, Kamila ; Dörk, Thilo ; Dumont, Martine ; Fasching, Peter A ; Figueroa, Jonine ; Flesch-Janys, Dieter ; Fletcher, Olivia ; Flyger, Henrik ; Fostira, Florentia ; Gammon, Marilie ; Giles, Graham G ; Guénel, Pascal ; Haiman, Christopher A ; Hamann, Ute ; Harrington, Patricia ; Hartman, Mikael ; Hooning, Maartje J ; Hopper, John L ; Jakubowska, Anna ; Jasmine, Farzana ; John, Esther M ; Johnson, Nichola ; Kabisch, Maria ; Khan, Sofia ; Kibriya, Muhammad ; Knight, Julia A ; Kosma, Veli-Matti ; Kriege, Mieke ; Kristensen, Vessela ; Le Marchand, Loic ; Lee, Eunjung ; Li, Jingmei ; Lindblom, Annika ; Lophatananon, Artitaya ; Luben, Robert ; Lubinski, Jan ; Malone, Kathleen E ; Mannermaa, Arto ; Manoukian, Siranoush ; Margolin, Sara ; Marme, Frederik ; McLean, Catriona ; Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne ; Meindl, Alfons ; Miao, Hui ; Muir, Kenneth ; Neuhausen, Susan L ; Nevanlinna, Heli ; Neven, Patrick ; Olson, Janet E ; Perkins, Barbara ; Peterlongo, Paolo ; Phillips, Kelly-Anne ; Pylkäs, Katri ; Rudolph, Anja ; Santella, Regina ; Sawyer, Elinor J ; Schmutzler, Rita K ; Schoemaker, Minouk ; Shah, Mitul ; Shrubsole, Martha ; Southey, Melissa C ; Swerdlow, Anthony J ; Toland, Amanda E ; Tomlinson, Ian ; Torres, Diana ; Truong, Thérèse ; Ursin, Giske ; Van Der Luijt, Rob B ; Verhoef, Senno ; Wang-Gohrke, Shan ; Whittemore, Alice S ; Winqvist, Robert ; Pilar Zamora, M ; Zhao, Hui ; Dunning, Alison M ; Simard, Jacques ; Hall, Per ; Kraft, Peter ; Pharoah, Paul ; Hunter, David ; Easton, Douglas F ; Zheng, Wei

Keywords:

Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Oncology, Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, Type 2 diabetes, Genetic susceptibility, GWAS, Breast cancer, Epidemiology, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, MULTIETHNIC COHORT, MELLITUS, LOCI, OBESITY, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Ethnicity, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Humans, Middle Aged, Odds Ratio, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, White People, 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 3211 Oncology and carcinogenesis, 4202 Epidemiology

Abstract:

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been reported to be associated with an elevated risk of breast cancer. It is unclear, however, whether this association is due to shared genetic factors.