ASIA PACIFIC: Cancer experts find new worrying genes

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Updated May 29, 2007 19:21:17

A comprehensive trawl through the human genome by an international team of cancer experts has found several new genes which put women at increased risk of breast cancer. The findings are published in the journal Nature, and build on a 1995 study - which found two genes which give women who carry them, up to an 85% increased risk of breast cancer.

Presenter: Corinne Podger
Speakers: Australian cancer expert Professor Graham Giles

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