Association between 9 IL6 tagging SNPs (with P-value less than 0.05) and MD after adjustment for age and BMI, based on an additive genetic model (N = 301).

a<p>based on map to Genome Build 37.3.</p>b<p>Number of women with wild-wild genotype.</p>c<p>Number of women with wild-variant genotype.</p>d<p>Number of women with variant-variant genotype.</p>e<p>Minor allele frequency.</p>f<p>Percent MD per variant allele based on additive model adjusted for age at mammogram (continuous) and BMI at mammogram (continuous).</p

The association between the most significant SNP within each growth factor gene and MD in Norwegian women (N = 310).

a<p>Number of women with wild-wild genotype.</p>b<p>Number of women with wild-variant genotype.</p>c<p>Number of women with variant-variant genotype.</p>d<p>Minor allele frequency.</p>e<p>Percent MD per variant allele based on additive model adjusted for age at mammogram (continuous) and BMI at mammogram (continuous).</p

Association between 8 IL6 tagging SNPs from table 3 and MD in low and high BMI groups.

a<p>Percent MD per variant allele based on additive model adjusted for age at mammogram (continuous) and BMI at mammogram (continuous).</p>b<p>Number of women with wild-wild genotype.</p>c<p>Number of women with wild-variant genotype.</p>d<p>Number of women with variant-variant genotype.</p>e<p>P-value for interaction.</p