by Weill Cornell Medical College Stalled replication forks (yellow arrows) are detected at the BRCA1 gene in cells containing a BRCA1 germline mutation. Credit: Weill Cornell Medicine Error-prone DNA replication and repair may lead to mutations and cancer in individuals who inherit a mutant copy of the BRCA1 gene, according to a new study by...
It would have been remarkable news if the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the breast cancer mutations test of 23andMe. The test includes three BRCA mutations that are a common cause of familial breast and ovarian cancer exclusively in Ashkenazi Jewish women. But according to numerous media reports, the FDA did just that earlier...
