Genetic 'hotspot' for breast cancer risk

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Centre investigators have identified a new genetic hotspot for breast cancer. Reporting this week in Nature Genetics, Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D, and colleagues have identified a region on chromosome 6 that is strongly associated with breast cancer susceptibility in Asian women. This genetic 'locus' may help guide efforts to find the specific genes linked with sporadic - or non-inherited - forms of the disease, the authors suggest...

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