Article: Replication and functional genomic analyses of the breast cancer susceptibility locus at 6q25.1 generalize its importance in women of Chinese, Japanese, and European ancestry

This research was supported by US NIH grant R01CA124558. The genotyping assays conducted at Vanderbilt University were done at the Survey and Biospecimen Core, which is supported in part by the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (P30CA68485). Participating studies (Principal Investigator, grant support) of the consortium are as follows: the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study (W. Zheng, R01CA64277), the Nashville Breast Health Study (W. Zheng, R01CA100374), the Shanghai Breast Cancer Survival Study (X.O. Shu, R01CA118229), the Shanghai Endometrial Cancer Study (X.O. Shu, R01CA92585, contributed only controls to the consortium), the Tianjin Study (K. Chen, the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant No. 30771844), the Nanjing Study (H. Shen, IRT0631, China), the Taiwan Biobank Study (C.-Y. Shen, DOH97-01), the Hong Kong Study (U.S. Khoo, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong SAR, China, HKU 7520/05M and 76730M), the Nagoya study (K. Tajima, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (17015052) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan; H. Tanaka, Grants-in-Aid for the Third Term Comprehensive Ten-Year Strategy for Cancer Control from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, H20-002), the Multiethnic Cohort Study (B. E. Henderson, CA63464; L. Kolonel, CA54281; and C.A. Haiman, CA132839), the Nagano Breast Cancer Study [S. Tsugane, Grants-in-Aid for the Third Term Comprehensive Ten-Year Strategy for Cancer Control from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, and for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (17015049) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan], the Collaborative Breast Cancer Study including Massachusetts (K.M. Egan, R01CA47305), Wisconsin (P.A. Newcomb, R01 CA47147) and New Hampshire (L. Titus-Ernstoff, R01CA69664) centers, the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project (M. D. Gammon, U01CA/ES66572; R.M. Santella, P30ES009089; J.A. Swenberg, P30ES010126), and the Southern Community Cohort Study (W.J. Blot, R01CA092447). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funding agencies.