A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers.

The effect sizes in the general population may be somewhat exaggerated as the BCAC dataset used here contributed to the discovery of most of the loci, although this effect is likely to be small as most loci are highly significant and the effects have been replicated in independent datasets 7 .

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