Immune Response Gene Variants Tied to Earlier Breast Cancer in BRCA1 Carriers

A whole exome sequencing study in women carrying a pathogenic BRCA1 mutation found that damaging variants in genes involved in innate immunity, and particularly NK cell activation, are significantly linked to earlier breast cancer onset.

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