Genome-wide association study of germline variants and breast cancer-specific mortality

We examined the associations between germline variants and breast cancer mortality using a large meta-analysis of women of European ancestry. Meta-analyses included summary estimates based on Cox models of twelve datasets using ~10.4 million variants for 96,661 women with breast cancer and 7697 events (breast cancer-specific deaths). Oestrogen receptor (ER)-specific analyses were based on 64,171 ER-positive (4116) and 16,172 ER-negative (2125)...