The search for low-penetrance cancer susceptibility alleles.

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Much of the familial aggregation of common cancer results from inherited susceptibility, but highly penetrant mutations in known genes cannot account for most of the excess. Some of the unexplained familial risk is presumably due to high-penetrance mutations in as yet unidentified genes, but polygenic mechanisms are likely to account for a greater proportion, particularly in breast cancer. This inference, coupled...

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