The Epigenetics Of Breast Cancer Family History
Sunday, March 2, 2014 - 12:40
in Health & Medicine
Breast cancer runs in families; however, genetic predisposition (such as being BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers) explains only a portion of this observation. Epigenetic changes (modifications in the genome that alter gene expression but do not affect the DNA sequence per se) have been shown to also play a role in breast cancer risk. read more