Search for dissertations about: "Jingmei Li"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Jingmei Li.

2. 1. Genetic determinants of breast cancer risk

   Author : Jingmei Li; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Breast Neoplasms;

   Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis was to identify genetic risk factors using both hypothesis-based and hypothesis-free approaches. In an attempt to identify common disease susceptibility alleles for breast cancer, we started off with a hypothesis-free approach, and performed a combined analysis of three genome-wide association studies (GWAS), involving 2,702 women of European ancestry with invasive breast cancer and 5,726 controls. READ MORE