News tagged with dna breaks

Diagnostic chest radiation before 30 may increase breast cancer risk

Women carrying a mutation in the BRCA1- or BRCA2- genes (which control the suppression of breast and ovarian cancer) who have undergone diagnostic radiation to the chest before the age of 30 are more likely to develop breast ...

Cancer Sep 06, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Genomic architecture presages genomic instability: study

When cells divide normally, DNA gets copied perfectly and distributed among the daughter cells with an even hand. Occasionally though, DNA breaks during division and is rearranged, resulting in duplications or deletions of ...

Genetics Oct 02, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |