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Scientists at Georgetown University Publish New Data on Menopause

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 29th, 2011

2011 DEC 29 -- Fresh data on Menopause are presented in the report "Telomere deficiencies on chromosomes 9p, 15p, 15q and Xp: potential biomarkers for breast cancer risk. 'Although telomere dysfunction is a characteristic of breast cancer cells, the relationship between deficiency on individual chromosomal telomeres in normal somatic cells and breast cancer risk has not been characterized. A case-control study was conducted to examine the associations between individual lengths of 92 telomeres in the human genome and the risk of breast cancer in 204 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients and 236 healthy controls," scientists in Washington, District of Columbia report.

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