Breast Cancer (Genetics)

Stanford Researchers Find Gene Involved In Breast Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 20th, 1997

Researchers at Stanford University, California, said they have found a gene that could be involved in a large number of breast cancer cases.

The gene normally blocks the growth of tumors. Its mutation, or absence, can predispose cancer to develop, according to researchers reporting in the January 10, 1997, issue of Cell.

Geneticists Stanley Cohen and Limin Li said the gene was inactivated in seven out of 15 cases of breast cancer they examined.

Two previously discovered genes have been linked to inherited types of breast cancer, which accounts for no more than 10 percent of cases. But the newly found gene, called TSG101, appears...

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