[Risk assessment for familial occurrence of breast cancer].

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There is now unequivocal evidence that an estimated 5% of breast cancer cases is inherited in families. Inherited predisposition of cancer in these families is thought to be the result of a mutation in one of several highly penetrant autosomal dominant genes such as BRCA1 or BRCA2. The BRCA1 gene which is localized on chromosome 17 q was recently isolated and at about the same time BRCA2 was localized to...

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