Breast cancer gene discovery.

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Many important advances have been made in the past decade in understanding breast cancer at the molecular level, and two important high-penetrance breast cancer genes--BRCA1 and BRCA2--have been identified. However, germline mutations in these two genes are responsible for only a minority (approximately 5%) of all breast carcinomas, and the genes responsible for the majority of breast cancer cases remain to be...

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