Abstract:Background: There is a strong genetic component to breast cancer, which is the most common neoplasm in women; however current risk markers are few, accounting for less than 10% of breast cancer cases. This means that the majority of familial breast cancers remain unexplained. Our laboratory has studied microsatellite polymorphisms for many years, and we developed techniques to assay these understudied regions of the genome en masse and individually via shot-gun methods to rapidly identify those that are likely… Show more
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