ADIPOQ and breast cancer: Although the current study did not examine ADIPOQ levels, increased ADIPOQ levels have been reported in the literature to be neither associated with ADIPOQ SNPs nor with BC risk; our results are thus in line with those of Karaduman et al. In Erbay et al.'s study conducted in a Turkish population, rs1501299 and rs2241766 SNPs were reported not to be associated with BC risk (p > 0.05).