A paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) this week, entitled “Performance of Common Genetic Variants in Breast-Cancer Risk Models,” has led several media outlets to declare that common genetic variants have nothing to add when it comes to predicting breast cancer risk.  Here we’ll explain how the [...]

Tags: breast cancer, National Cancer Institute, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, risk, SNPs

A new genetic screening process has helped researchers understand the genetic causes of cancer, such as how mutations accumulated in a person’s life can cause leukemia.
The study shows that by comparing a person’s own DNA to that of their cancerous cells, researchers can find DNA mutations that may have led to abnormal cell growth, or [...]

Tags: acute myeloid, cancer, leukemia, mutation, NEJM, personalized medicine