Variants Of Vitamin D Receptor Linked To Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer

ScienceDaily (Apr. 21, 2008) — Genetic variations in the body's receptor for vitamin D could increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to a new study. Jenny Chang-Claude of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology, at the German Cancer Research Center, in Heidelberg, and colleagues there and at the Institute for Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, undertook a population-based case-control study involving 1,408 patients and 2,612 control individuals.