The RNF146 and ECHDC1 genes as candidates for inherited breast and ovarian cancer in Jewish Ashkenazi women.

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Only about 40% of the familial aggregation of breast cancer can be attributed to germline mutations in currently identified genes, primarily BRCA1 and BRCA2. A recent genome-wide association study focusing on Jewish Ashkenazi high risk women identified a novel locus on chromosome 6 as putatively containing breast cancer susceptibility genes, a locus that contains two seemingly novel candidate genes: RNF146 and...

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