Genetics of breast cancer: applications to the Mexican population.
Breast cancer research has yielded several important results including the strong susceptibility genes,BRCA1 and BRCA2 and more recently 19 genes and genetic loci that confer a more moderate risk.The pace of discovery is accelerating as genetic technology and computational methods improve. These discoveries will change the way that breast cancer risk is understood in Mexico over the next few decades.
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Institute for Human Genetics, San Francisco, California, USA. elad.ziv@ucsf.edu
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