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News 11-01-2011 02:31 AM

Non-carriers do not have increased risk of breast cancer due to familial mutation
 
A population-based analysis of more than 3,000 families including women with breast cancer has found that close relatives of women who carry mutations in a BRCA gene - but who themselves do not have such genetic mutations - do not have an increased risk of developing breast cancer compared to relatives of women with breast cancer who do not have such mutations.

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