[Inherited predisposition to breast cancer: after the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, what next?].

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Germline mutations of the breast cancer predisposing known genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, with an autosomal dominant transmission explain only a part of the familial aggregation of breast cancer. Mainly involved in families with cases of ovarian cancer or male breast cancer, they account for a small proportion of families where only female breast cancer cases are observed. A third predisposing gene, called BRCA3, has...

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