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The genetics of breast cancer risk in the post-genome era: thoughts on study design to move past BRCA and towards clinical relevance.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 3 Oct 2016
Skol Andrew D, Sasaki Mark M, Onel Kenan
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More than 12 % of women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Although there have been tremendous advances in elucidating genetic risk factors underlying both familial and sporadic breast cancer, much of the genetic contribution to breast cancer etiology remains unknown. The discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2 over 20 years ago remains the seminal event in the field and has paved the way for the...
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