BRCA1 Doesn't Act Alone

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BRCA1 Doesn't Act Alone

Aug 20, 2008

A paper in PNAS this week looks at how mutations in genes associated with breast cancer affect BRCA1, a tumor suppressor gene that when mutated leads to breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers.

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