{"id":5930,"date":"2017-12-12T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2017-12-12T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:43:49","slug":"genetic-variants-for-breast-cancer-can-help-in-better-screening-and-treatments-earlier-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/genetic-variants-for-breast-cancer-can-help-in-better-screening-and-treatments-earlier-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic variants for breast cancer can help in better screening and treatments, earlier detection "},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have identified 72 \u00a0new genetic variants associated with the risk of breast cancer. In two recently published studies, researchers describe the new variants – including some that are associated with two biologically distinct types of breast cancer cases that don’t respond to hormonal therapy. These results come from a global project which involved over 500 scientists. Study authors say these findings are major contributions to the inherited biological basis of breast cancer, which might help lead to improved screening, earlier detection and better treatments for this disease.<\/p>\n

Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kyriaki Michailidou, Sara Lindstr\u00f6m, Douglas F. Easton et al.<\/p>\n

Canadian author:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jacques Simard, Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Qu\u00e9bec Research Center, Laval University, Qu\u00e9bec City, Email:\u00a0jacques.simard@crchudequebec.ulaval.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Original paper <\/a>published in Nature<\/em> on October 23, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists have identified 72 \u00a0new genetic variants associated with the risk of breast cancer. In two recently published studies, researchers describe the new variants – including some that are associated with two biologically distinct types of breast cancer cases that don’t respond to hormonal therapy. These results come from a global project which involved over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2092,49,909],"class_list":["post-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-genetics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1xE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5931,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions\/5931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}