[Support for these hypotheses came from the observations that (a) two SNPs in Ku70 and XRCC4 were associated with breast cancer risk (P < 0.05); (b) a trend toward increased risk of developing breast cancer was found in women harboring a greater number of putative high-risk genotypes of NHEJ genes (an adjusted odds ratio of 1.46 for having one additional putative high-risk genotype; 95% confidence interval, 1.19-1.80); (c) this association between risk and the number of putative high-risk genotypes was stronger and more significant in women thought to be more susceptible to estrogen, i.e., those with no history of full-term pregnancy; and (d) the protective effect conferred by a history of full-term pregnancy was only significant in women with a lower number of putative high-risk genotypes of NHEJ genes.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE