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Breast Cancer
Recent findings from M.R. Stratton and co-authors highlight research in breast cancer
April 10th, 2008
"The genetic basis of inherited predisposition to breast cancer has been assiduously investigated for the past two decades and has been the subject of several recent discoveries," scientists writing in the journal Nature Genetics report. "Three reasonably well-defined classes of breast cancer susceptibility alleles with different levels of risk and prevalence in the population have become apparent: rare high-penetrance alleles, rare moderate-penetrance alleles and common low-penetrance alleles. The contribution of each component to breast cancer predisposition is still to be fully explored, as are the phenotypic characteristics of the cancers associated with...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-04-10)
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