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  1. breast cancer condition summary
    Found: Breast cancer is a disease in which certain cells...
  2. Li-Fraumeni syndrome condition summary
    Found: ...Li-Fraumeni syndrome include breast cancer, a form of bone cancer called osteosarcoma,...
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  3. CDH1 gene summary
    Official name: cadherin 1, type 1, E-cadherin (epithelial)
    Found: ...risk of developing a form of breast cancer that begins in the milk-producing...
  4. AR gene summary
    Official name: androgen receptor
    Found: ...a woman's chance of developing breast cancer. The results of research studies...
  5. TP53 gene summary
    Official name: tumor protein p53
    Found: ...increase the risk of developing breast cancer as part of a rare inherited cancer...
  6. BRIP1 gene summary
    Official name: BRCA1 interacting protein C-terminal helicase 1
    Found: ...an increased risk of developing breast cancer. These mutations occur in one...
  7. BRCA1 gene summary
    Official name: breast cancer 1, early onset
    Found: In addition to female breast cancer, mutations in the BRCA1 gene also...
  8. BRCA2 gene summary
    Official name: breast cancer 2, early onset
    Found: In addition to female breast cancer, mutations in one copy of the BRCA2...
  9. STK11 gene summary
    Official name: serine/threonine kinase 11
    Found: ...increase the risk of developing breast cancer as part of a rare inherited cancer...
  10. PTEN gene summary
    Official name: phosphatase and tensin homolog
    Found: ...increase the risk of developing breast cancer as part of a rare inherited cancer...
  11. RAD51 gene summary
    Official name: RAD51 homolog (RecA homolog, E. coli) (S. cerevisiae)
    Found: ...an increased risk of developing breast cancer. Some of these genetic changes...
  12. PALB2 gene summary
    Official name: partner and localizer of BRCA2
    Found: ...people with familial forms of breast cancer. These mutations occur in one...
  13. DIRAS3 gene summary
    Official name: DIRAS family, GTP-binding RAS-like 3
    Found: ...is often downregulated in breast cancer cells, which means its activity...
  14. CHEK2 gene summary
    Official name: CHK2 checkpoint homolog (S. pombe)
    Found: ...identified in some cases of breast cancer. For example, a specific change...
  15. ATM gene summary
    Official name: ataxia telangiectasia mutated
    Found: ...an increased risk of developing breast cancer. About 1 percent of the United...
  16. ERBB2 gene summary
    Official name: v-erb-b2 erythroblastic leukemia viral oncogene homolog 2, neuro/glioblastoma derived oncogene homolog (avian)
    Found: ...is found in about 25 percent of breast cancers. Extra copies of this gene cause...
  17. RB1CC1 gene information
    Official name: RB1-inducible coiled-coil 1
    Found: ...in the tumorigenesis of breast cancer. 20% (7 of 35) of primary breast...
  18. PPM1D gene information
    Official name: protein phosphatase 1D magnesium-dependent, delta isoform
    Found: ...region known to be amplified in breast cancer. The amplification of this gene...
  19. NBN gene summary
    Official name: nibrin
    Found: ...an increased risk of developing breast cancer, particularly in Slavic populations...
  20. RB1 gene summary
    Official name: retinoblastoma 1
    Found: ...in some cases of lung cancer, breast cancer, a bone cancer known as osteosarcoma,...
 
Published: November 20, 2009