[These families have made a major contribution to increasing our knowledge in the cancer genetic susceptibility field, allowing the discovery of a genetic association between breast and ovarian cancer predisposition, contributing to the mapping of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, advancing the idea of the existence of other breast cancer susceptibility genes, allowing the evaluation of BRCA-associated cancer risks and psychosocial aspects of BRCA testing and so on.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE