Fang Chen

Summary

Affiliation: University of Southern California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi A genome-wide association study of breast cancer in women of African ancestry
    Fang Chen
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Hum Genet 132:39-48. 2013
  2. ncbi No association of risk variants for diabetes and obesity with breast cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort and PAGE studies
    Fang Chen
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:1039-42. 2011
  3. ncbi Caution in generalizing known genetic risk markers for breast cancer across all ethnic/racial populations
    Fang Chen
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Eur J Hum Genet 19:243-5. 2011
  4. ncbi Fine-mapping of breast cancer susceptibility loci characterizes genetic risk in African Americans
    Fang Chen
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Hum Mol Genet 20:4491-503. 2011

Detail Information

Publications4

  1. ncbi A genome-wide association study of breast cancer in women of African ancestry
    Fang Chen
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Hum Genet 132:39-48. 2013
    ..Identification of novel risk variants for breast cancer in women of African ancestry will demand testing of a substantially larger set of markers from stage 1 in a larger replication sample...
  2. ncbi No association of risk variants for diabetes and obesity with breast cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort and PAGE studies
    Fang Chen
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:1039-42. 2011
    ..Body mass index is an established risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer. Epidemiologic studies have also reported a positive association between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and breast cancer risk...
  3. ncbi Caution in generalizing known genetic risk markers for breast cancer across all ethnic/racial populations
    Fang Chen
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Eur J Hum Genet 19:243-5. 2011
    ..These results emphasize the need for large-scale association studies of multiple racial/ethnic groups for discovery and characterization of risk alleles relevant to all populations in the United States...
  4. ncbi Fine-mapping of breast cancer susceptibility loci characterizes genetic risk in African Americans
    Fang Chen
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Hum Mol Genet 20:4491-503. 2011
    ..04, P = 6.1 × 10(-5)]. In this detailed analysis of the known breast cancer risk loci, we have validated and improved upon markers of risk that better characterize their association with breast cancer in women of African ancestry...