Judith S. Brand

TL;DR: A genome-wide association study of breast cancer in 122,977 cases and 105,974 controls of European ancestry and 14,068 cases and 13,104 controls of East Asian ancestry finds that heritability of Breast cancer due to all single-nucleotide polymorphisms in regulatory features was 2–5-fold enriched relative to the genome- wide average.

TL;DR: 15 new loci associated with breast cancer at P < 5 × 10−8 are identified, and one association appears to be driven by an amino acid substitution encoded in EXO1, which is found in women of European ancestry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used 1000 Genomes Project-imputed genotype data in up to ∼370,000 women to identify 389 independent signals (P < 5 × 10-8) for age at menarche, a milestone in female pubertal development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a meta-analysis of observational studies relating metabolic syndrome to determinants of testosterone status [total testosterone (TT), free testosterone (FT) and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG).

TL;DR: A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of predominantly estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease and BRCA1 mutation carrier GWAS observed consistent associations with ER-negative disease for 105 susceptibility variants identified by other studies, which explain approximately 16% of the familial risk of this breast cancer subtype.