The product of a sixth, newly-cloned FA-associated gene has been linked to BRCA1, and may finally offer some insight into the mechanism by which FA increases cancer susceptibility. You have full ...

Female carriers of germline BRCA1 mutations have a lifetime risk of breast cancer exceeding 80% and of ovarian cancer approaching 60%. The cumulative lifetime risk of developing either breast or ...

He was struck by the ICR’s previous work identifying breast cancer families and could see the potential to identify the gene that was causing their cancers. On the heels of the BRCA1 gene discovery in ...

They focused on cancers with a change (mutation) in genes called BRCA. BRCA stands for BReast CAncer gene. Normally, BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes stop cells in our body from growing and dividing out of ...