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Cancer Genetics

Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of cancer genetics

Study 1: Researchers with the U.S. National Cancer Institute report they've done "the first comprehensive sequence comparison of primate BRCA1 loci and corresponding proteins."

"Germ-line mutations in the BRCA1 gene predispose affected individuals to breast and ovarian cancer syndromes. In an attempt to systematically analyze a broader spectrum of genetic changes ranging from frequent exon deletions and duplications to amino acid replacements and protein truncations, we isolated and characterized full size BRCA1 homologues from a representative group of non-human...

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