Genetic variants modifying breast cancer risk discovered

Sunday, September 19, 2010 - 16:21 in Health & Medicine

Individuals with disrupting mutations in the BRCA1 gene are known to be at substantially increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives. Now, discoveries from an international research team led by Mayo Clinic researchers show that some of those persons may possess additional genetic variants that modify their risk.

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