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Oncology

New research in the area of oncology detailed

Study 1: Ethnic differences are found in incidence of gene markers.

According to scientists in the United States, "We sequenced the entire coding region of BRCA1 to improve our understanding of the frequency and nature of BRCA1 variants in African-American and Latina women identified from a multiethnic cohort in Los Angeles, California. The study included 109 African-American and 140 Latina sibships from families with 2 or more cases of breast or ovarian cancer among first-degree relatives."

R. McKean-Cowdin and colleagues, University of Southern...

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