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The BRCA2 team: the scientists behind the breast cancer gene discovery
Twenty-five years ago today, ICR researchers made the historic discovery of the BRCA2 gene, involved in familial risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancer. Juanita Bawagan recounts some of their ...
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Mathew Knowles Gets Real About Surviving Breast Cancer And Living With BRCA2 Gene Mutation
Mathew Knowles gets candid about surviving breast cancer and living with the BRCA2 gene mutation. Mathew Knowles is honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month by opening up about his own experience as ...
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BRCA 1 and 2--A Genetic Link to Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Carriers of BRCA2 mutants have a similar risk of breast cancer and a more moderately increased risk of ovarian cancer. BRCA1 and BRCA2, located on the long arms of chromosomes 17 and 13 ...
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What to Know About BRCA Testing and What Your Results Mean
Everyone is born with the BRCA 1 and BRCA2 genes. You inherit two sets of each gene, one from each of your biological parents. These genes create proteins that help repair damaged DNA. But ...
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Identifying a breast cancer gene – BRCA2
We identified the breast cancer gene BRCA2, which enabled families with a history of breast cancer to be assessed for future risk, and laid the groundwork for developing novel forms of therapy for ...