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Breast Cancer
Small variations in genes can determine risk of developing disease
January 6th, 2005
A woman's risk of developing breast cancer is due in part to a group of very small variations in genes which code for a cell's estrogen receptors, according to a collaborative study. The researchers and scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Celera Diagnostics; SAIC-Frederick Inc.; Applied Biosystems; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine - reported their findings in the December 15, 2004, issue of Cancer Research (Gold B, et al., Estrogen receptor genes and haplotypes associated with breast cancer risk. Cancer Res,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-06)
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