The first baby preselected as breast cancer-gene free was born in the UK this month and made the headlines. The doctors used preimplanatation genetic diagnostics (PGD) to screen IVF-produced embryos for those which are free from mutations of the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2. The parents opted for the procedure to free the next generation from [...]
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It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
And here is another one of those association studies that can tell your risk for breast cancer. This time it’s size at birth that predicts your susceptibility to breast cancer.
By size, they refer to the length and weight at birth, as well as the head circumference. The data came from 32 [...]
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