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Breast cancer risk increased for African-Americans with mit What is this ?

 
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:07 pm    Post subject: Breast cancer risk increased for African-Americans with mit Reply with quote

African-American women who carry the 10398A mitochondrial DNA allele are 60 percent more likely to develop invasive breast cancer than African-American females without that genetic marker, according to research published in the September 1 issue of "Cancer Research."

[url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-09/aafc-bcr083005.php]Read more...[/url]
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