BRCA2 carriers at increased risk for deadly form of prostate cancer
... ... Laufey Tryggvadttir of the Icelandic Cancer Registry and colleagues compared survival and disease progression in prostate cancer patients with the Icelandic BRCA2 999del5 founder mu...Repair of DNA by Brca2 gene prevents medulloblastoma
... The St. Jude researchers demonstrated that the Brca2 gene plays a dual role in the developing nervous system, eliminating errors in the DNA of newly made copies of chromosomes and suppressing the onset of the brain cancer medulloblastoma. Medulloblastoma is a cancer of the cerebellumthe lower back part of the brain that cont...More common associations found between BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and cancer
... ... Harvey A. Risch, M.D., Ph.D., of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., and colleagues look...Following the decision of the European Patent Office (EPO) to uphold the slimmed-down version of the University of Utah Research Foundation's European patent on the BRCA2 breast cancer gene, Professor Gert Matthijs, from the Department of Human Genetics, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and chair of the ESHG Patenting and Licensing Committee, said:...... "The patent owners have been able t...