Slight changes in 2 key genes appear to launch breast cancer development

Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 07:20 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at Georgetown Lombard Comprehensive Cancer Centre have been able to show, in mice, how just a little adjustment in the expression of two common genes can promote the kind of cellular changes that led to breast cancer. They say these tweaks likely mimic natural variation women have in expression of the two genes...

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