Mayo Clinic research helps refine role of gene variants in breast cancer risk

ROCHESTER, Minn. ??Inherited pathogenic variants in protein coding genes BARD1 and RAD51D increase a woman?s likelihood of developing breast cancer, according to research conducted at Mayo Clinic and presented today at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.?Pathogenic variants are changes in DNA?that have a negative impact on a gene?s ability to function properly. ?The [...]
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