Hereditary predisposition to cancer is sometimes due to a single high - risk genetic change, like a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes for breast cancer, but most of the time, the disease is the result of multiple gene variants that add up, environmental risk factors, and a big element of chance. (sciencemag.org)
Speaking at a meeting on genetic predisposition to cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, Kash said the women in the programme were as anxious about cancer as those who had already contracted and survived other cancers. (newscientist.com)
PLoS Genetics 2015, 11 (2): e1004922 To shed light on the genetic predisposition to cancers of the hematologic system, we performed genome - wide association analysis of affected and non-affected pet dogs. (hjnoh.com)