Oncogenes

Survey of cancer genes uncovers Viking roots

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 15th, 2003

The Scots and Northern Irish are genetically distinct from people elsewhere in the U.K., with a different legacy of inherited cancers than in England and Wales, the largest ever survey of its kind reveals.

Researchers from across Scotland and Northern Ireland, funded by Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council, the Scottish Executive and the Breast Cancer Campaign, tracked down families with inherited breast and ovarian cancer and examined the genetic faults responsible.

The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, found women from Scotland and Northern Ireland with breast cancer in their families have inherited a distinct...

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