All adults with Westray grandparents, living in Westray, will be offered a genetic test for Orkney variant - BRCA1 V1736A. There are many other BRCA gene variants which can leave women at a higher ...

When Jenner Ellis died of ovarian cancer in 2010 the specific mutation of the BRCA1 gene linked to Orkney had not yet been identified. It was known that certain mutations carried a higher risk of ...

with those present set to be told that scientists had linked a variant in the gene BRCA1 to the island. Researchers spotted the gene variant repeatedly in women from Orkney with the cancers ...

The variant in the gene BRCA1 was linked to a historic origin ... We are setting up a system that will hopefully extend to the rest of Orkney and Scotland as soon as funding allows.” ...

The gene mutation was repeatedly spotted in women from Orkney who have breast and ovarian ... “Developing cancer is not solely down to carrying the BRCA1 variant alone. There are many complex ...

Geneticists from the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh have linked a variant in the gene BRCA1 to a historic origin in Westray, Orkney (Terry Benson/PA) Professor Zosia Miedzybrodzka ...