BRCA1 and BRCA2: from molecular genetics to clinical medicine.

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Inherited susceptibility to breast cancer has been an area of intense investigation for the past 10 years. Early work focused on identifying modes of transmission, which culminated in the identification of chromosome 17q12-21 as the first human genomic region that harbored an autosomal dominant susceptibility gene for breast cancer (BRCA1) in 1990. BRCA1 was subsequently identified and was followed shortly by the...

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