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Period3 Structural Variation: A Circadian Biomarker Associated with Breast Cancer in Young Women

Zhu, Yong, Brown, Heather N., Zhang, Yawei, Stevens, Richard G., Zheng, Tongzhang·2005·Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention

Abstract

Circadian disruption has been indicated as a risk factor for breast cancer in recent epidemiologic studies. A novel finding in circadian biology is that genes responsible for circadian rhythm also regulate many other biological pathways, including cell proliferation, cell cycle regulation, and apoptosis. Therefore, mutations in circadian genes could conceivably result in deregulation of these processes and contribute to tumor development, and be markers for susceptibility to human cancer. In this study, we investigated the association between an exonic length variation in a circadian gene, Period3 (Per3), and breast cancer risk using blood samples collected from a recently completed breast cancer case-control study in Connecticut. There were 389 Caucasian cases and 432 Caucasian controls included in our analysis. We found that the variant Per3 genotype (heterozygous + homozygous 5-repeat alleles) was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer among premenopausal women (odds ratio, 1.7; 95% confidence interval, 1.0-3.0). Our finding suggests that the circadian genes might be a novel panel of potential biomarkers for breast cancer and worth further investigation.

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Authors
Zhu, Y., Brown, H. N., Zhang, Y., Stevens, R. G., & Zheng, T.
Venue
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
Published
2005-01-01
Volume
14
Issue
1
Pages
268-270
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  • 1055-9965 (ISSN-L)
  • 1538-7755
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4.01
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journal article
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en
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