Mutations in the BRCA1 gene ... BRCA2 variation predominated, with eight (8%) testing positive, but only one (less than 1%) testing positive for a germline BRCA1 variant. Germline BRCA 1 and BRCA ...

And around 42,000 are expected to die. Recent research suggests mutations of the BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 genes increase cancer risk by as much as 84 percent. Normally, these genes suppress tumors and ...

"I was just stunned," says Heba Salama, the show's season 6 at home winner, about learning she has the gene mutation that makes ... side is the only one with the BRCA gene. "My whole body just ...

One may derive from, say, an environmental exposure and the other from an inherited gene mutation ... has a 13.2 percent chance of developing breast cancer. Why do these BRCA mutations increase ...