Anticipating disaster: the genetics of familial pancreatic cancer.

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To be born into a family with familial pancreatic cancer, an inheritable, autosomal dominant disorder, has various implications for an individual's life--and none is fortunate. The prospects just turned even darker because of "anticipation", the phenomenon that successive generations are affected by an inheritable disorder at a progressively earlier age. An up to date study shows that "anticipation" is also...

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