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Record W4408972975 · doi:10.1093/aje/kwaf067

Interactions between genetic and epidemiological factors influencing mammographic density

2025· article· en· W4408972975 on OpenAlexafffund
Austin Hammermeister Suger, Hongjie Chen, Cameron B. Haas, Shaoqi Fan, Christopher G. Scott, Manjeet K. Bolla, Joe Dennis, Alison M. Dunning, Kyriaki Michailidou, Peter A. Fasching, Lothar Haeberle, Jennifer Stone, Manuela Gago-Domínguez, Jose E. Castelao, Rachel A. Murphy, Kristan J. Aronson, Fergus J. Couch, Siddhartha Yadav, Roger L. Milne, John L. Hopper, Aaron D. Norman, A. Heather Eliassen, William Tapper, D. Gareth Evans, Susan Astley, Per Hall, Kamila Czene, Paul D P Pharoah, Antonis C Antoniou, Montserrat García‐Closas, Amy Berrington de González, Gretchen L. Gierach, Rulla M. Tamimi, Celine M. Vachon, Sara Lindström, Tabitha A. Harrison

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Journal of Epidemiology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAI in cancer detection
Canadian institutionsQueen's UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaBC Cancer Agency
FundersNational Cancer InstituteMedical Research CouncilMinisterio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e IgualdadDepartment of Health and Social CareNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchGenome CanadaNIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research CentreEuropean CommissionBreast Cancer Research FoundationServicio Gallego de SaludInstituto de Salud Carlos IIIAmgenCancer Council Western AustraliaPfizerFondation du cancer du sein du QuébecNational Institutes of HealthOvarian Cancer Research FundNational Health and Medical Research CouncilCancer Research UKXunta de GaliciaGovernment of CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchPharmavite
KeywordsEpidemiologyMAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITYMedicineGenetic epidemiologyEnvironmental healthMammographyGeneticsBiologyBreast cancerInternal medicineCancer

Abstract

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Studies have identified genetic and epidemiologic factors associated with mammographic density (MD) phenotypes. However, MD-associated genetic variants only account for a small proportion of the total estimated heritability. Interrogating interactions between genetic and epidemiologic factors could potentially identify additional MD-associated loci, expand our understanding of the genetic basis of MD phenotypes, and clarify how epidemiologic factors modulate relationships between genetic variants and MD. We conducted six separate genome-wide, gene-environment (GxE) interaction analyses, applying 2 degrees of freedom (df) and 1df interaction tests, for each of three MD phenotypes (percent density, dense area (DA), and nondense area (NDA)). The six epidemiologic factors considered were height, ever parous, parity, ever menopausal hormone therapy, ever breastfeeding, and months of breastfeeding. We included European ancestry participants from multiple studies within the Markers of Density consortium and the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (n = 4895-16 218 depending on specific analyses). We identified 11 loci with genome-wide significant (P < 5 × 10-8) interaction tests including two novel common genetic signals interacting with parity (8p21.2) and ever breastfeeding (19p13.2) for NDA. Our results suggest that epidemiologic risk factors might influence relationships between common genetic variants and MD phenotypes at particular genomic loci.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.014

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.341
Teacher spread0.300 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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