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However, further follow up and modifier studies are warranted if larger and clinically detailed cohorts can be established.

Also, the age of the included patients could be a potential effect modifier as eight studies are of adults and three are of children.

However, since a comprehensive discussion of all modifier gene studies is beyond the scope of this review, the main focus will rather be on recent progress made in the field.

As such, there is the possibility that differences in study and patients characteristics across studies are modifiers of the treatment effects.

Thus, menopausal status could be another effect modifier for breast cancer, and further studies are needed to discuss the confounding effect of this factor for breast cancer [ 33].

One potential effect modifier in these studies is genetic variability of pesticide metabolism genes, which may allow some individuals to metabolize pesticides at greater rates than others.

Overall, both geographic and temporal trends, which have not been evaluated in previous studies, were important exposure modifiers for workers in this occupational cohort.

Prior findings about modifiers are inconsistent, and most of these studies were conducted in developed countries.

Other prion modifiers identified in this study are associated directly or indirectly to ECM homeostasis and remodelling.

Indeed, length polymorphisms within the two motifs examined in our study are well known modifiers of gene expression and human disease risk (Chu et al. 1993; Cuppens et al. 1998; Gebhardt et al. 1999; Buerger et al. 2004; Hui et al. 2005).

Although the whole genome scan approach will be used in future genetic modifier studies, the candidate gene approach was chosen to test our hypothesis as only two of the relevant ABH SNPs are included on current SNP-based whole genome platforms.