Identified as responsible for breast and ovarian hereditary cancer 3 mutations at BRCA1 gene
Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 12:23
in Health & Medicine
Researchers of the hereditary cancer research group at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and the Catalan Institute of Oncology conducted a functional and structural study of seven missense variants of the BRCA1 gene concluding that three of these variants are pathogenic, linked to the risk of suffering breast or ovarian cancer. The study has been published at PLoS One.