Hereditary ovarian cancer.

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Ovarian cancer has been described in association with three autosomal dominant syndromes: familial site-specific ovarian cancer, familial breast and ovarian cancer, and the hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer syndrome. It appears that most breast-ovarian and site-specific ovarian cancer families are explained by mutations in the BRCA1 tumor suppressor gene. Other genes associated with inherited susceptibility to...

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