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Validity of Models for Predicting BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations
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What is the problem and what is known about it so far?
Two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, occur infrequently in the population but are relatively common in women of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and in women with a strong family history of breast cancer. When a woman has defects in 1 of these genes, she …
