Researchers Identify Twelve Breast Cancer Genes In Women Of African Ancestry

Reuters (5/13, Lapid) reports, “Twelve breast cancer genes identified in women of African ancestry in a large study...may one day help better predict their risk for the disease and highlights potential risk differences from women of European descent.” These “new findings are drawn from more than 40,000 women of African ancestry in the United States, Africa and Barbados, including 18,034 with breast cancer.” The findings were published in Nature Genetics. According to Reuters, “Studies to identify genetic mutations linked with breast cancer have previously mainly focused on women of European ancestry.”