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SNPs Associated With Breast Cancer Risk Alter Binding Affinity For Pioneer Factor FOXA1
2013-01-27 17:05:57| Biotech - Topix.net
Dartmouth scientists showed that more than half of all the SNPs associated with breast cancer risk are located in distant regions and bound by FOXA1, a protein required for estrogen receptor-I function according to a paper published in the journal Nature Genetics .* Jason Moore, PhD, a Third Century Professor of genetics, director of the Institute ... (more)
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