quarta-feira, 28 de junho de 2017

Cancer and heredity

Heredity
Particular types of cancer seem to run in families. The risk of developing breast, lung, and colon cancers increases two-to threefold when first-degree relatives have had these cancers. Investigators have pinpointed the location of a gene called BRCA1, that was found by studying families whose female members are prone to breast cancer.

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