Friday, Oct. 20, 5:30 - 5:50 p.m., South Hall B, South Building Featured Plenary Abstract: The contribution of rare variants, polygenic risk, and novel candidate genes to the hereditary risk of breast cancer in a large cohort of breast cancer families N. Li, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, et al (ashg.org)
Researchers at the University of Melbourne, led by Professor Melissa Southey, looked at 210 people from 25 multiple - case breast cancer families. (sciencedaily.com)
This important finding has come from more than 20 years of research involving breast cancer families recruited from cancer registries and clinics across the country. (newsroom.melbourne.edu)