The most prominent players are the BRCA1 (Chromosome 17) and BRCA2 (Chromosome 13) genes, which are responsible for repairing DNA damage. Transmutations in these genes, often passed down through ...

As many as 60 percent of men with changes in BRCA2 develop prostate cancer, yet men are generally far less aware than women ...

Twenty-five years ago today, ICR researchers made the historic discovery of the BRCA2 gene, involved in familial risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancer. Juanita Bawagan recounts some of their ...

After Robyn Smith had a double mastectomy five years ago, she was advised she could have breast implants, even told not ...

Did you know that private companies can patent genes in your body? A company called Myriad Genetics "owns" two genes known as BRCA 1 and BRCA2 –or Breast Cancer 1 and Breast Cancer 2. Women with ...

One in 40 people with heritage from the island of Whalsay in Shetland have the same variation in the BRCA2 gene—one of the commonest genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer in women ...

Carriers of BRCA2 mutants have a similar risk of breast cancer and a more moderately increased risk of ovarian cancer. BRCA1 and BRCA2, located on the long arms of chromosomes 17 and 13 ...

Researchers worked with two labs to identify 16 consensus lower-risk pathogenic variants and are pushing for greater ...

We identified the breast cancer gene BRCA2, which enabled families with a history of breast cancer to be assessed for future risk, and laid the groundwork for developing novel forms of therapy for ...

Matthew Rose lost his mother, Estelle, to pancreatic cancer in 2012. He lost his sister to ovarian cancer years before [...] ...