Hispanic women at risk of breast cancer gene-study

By Tom | December 25, 2007

U.S. researchers shows genetic mutation of the BRCA1 gene appears to link Hispanic, young African-American and Ashkenazi Jewish women who have breast cancer.The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at more than 3,000 cancer patients in the United States diagnosed before age 65 between 1996 and 2005.

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