The BRCA cancer gene mutation runs in Kiranjeet Kaur’s family. Her sister was diagnosed around the same time, and her three ...

Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) have made one of the most ...

Women with breast cancer who were also carriers of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation and received textured breast implants as part ...

Genetic testing could prevent you from ever having ovarian cancer. “The only way to do that is to offer testing to people ...

Shoshana Ungerleider is many things: an internal medicine physician, a science journalist, a San Francisco resident, a host ...

A study shows that women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations who have textured breast implants are at a 16-fold higher risk of ...

A substantial proportion of familial breast cancers have mutations within the BRCA2 gene. The product of this gene has been implicated in DNA repair and in the regulation of transcription.

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in understanding the BRCA2 gene, offering new hope for cancer patients and those at high risk of developing the disease.

In the 1960s, one of his first cousins, now deceased, fathered a previously unknown child with a woman who placed the baby for adoption.

DNA testing can provide insights into complex conditions like heart disease, high cholesterol, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Currently, new parents are offered a blood spot test for their babies, normally when the child is five days old, to check ...