Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Dartmouth researchers find that a mutation to BRCA2 gene can double the risk of lung cancer in smokers

New research by an international group of scientists confirms a vulnerability to lung cancer can be inherited and implicates the BRCA2 gene as harboring one of the involved genetic mutations.

Click here to read the full press release.

Study mentioned:
Nat Genet. 2014 Jun 1. doi: 10.1038/ng.3002. [Epub ahead of print]
Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer.

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