Breast Cancer Research
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Working with Mark Powell, MD, MPH at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, I help examine genotype and blood biomarkers and their associations with invasive breast cancer.
Suzanne M. Dufault, PhD
Assistant Professor
My research interests include randomized trials, tuberculosis, eliminating dengue, and reproducible research.
Publications
Cancer and cardiovascular risk in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy carrying a common IGF1R variant
Women who experience HDPs have 41% lower risk for developing nonbreast cancer and have lower later-life blood pressures if they inherit …
Pregnancy hypertension and a commonly inherited IGF1R variant (rs2016347) reduce breast cancer by enhancing mammary gland involution
Terminal duct lobular units (TDLUs) are the anatomic sites of breast cancer initiation, and breast tissue involution resulting in lower …
