Woman, 27, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Weeks later, her sister 32, learned she had the same cancer
Katie and Lyndsay Cooper have the BRCA1 mutation and started screening early. They both discovered lumps in their breast, ...
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Woman, 27, is diagnosed with breast cancer just 2 weeks before her sister, 32, receives the same diagnosis
She and her sister Lyndsay Cooper, 32, both carry a BRCA1 mutation, a genetic change that increases ... They also learned that they’re 50% Ashkenazi Jewish, a group at an increased rate of ...
Arizona Jewish Post10d
The three cancers Jews need to worry about most — and how to reduce the risks
It’s a combination of genetics and behavior, according to Dr. Harriet Kluger, a cancer researcher at Yale University. On the genetics side, Ashkenazi Jews — who comprise about half of Israel’s Jewish ...
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African, Asian Ancestry Patients Less Likely to Be Eligible for New Precision Oncology Drugs
A new study found that fewer African and Asian patients had clinically actionable alterations for lung, breast, and colorectal cancer.
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Hemophilia overview
and it is more common among Ashkenazi Jews, affecting about 8% of people in this ethnic group. Acquired hemophilia, which is caused by a malfunction of the immune system rather by genetic mutations, ...
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Henry Harpending
Henry Harpending was a controversial anthropologist at the University of Utah who studied human evolution and, in his words, “genetic diversity within and ... the American Black population come out ...
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Four in 10 Ashkenazi Jews have cancer-causing gene mutation, prompting NHS testing
The mutation is found in four out of 10 people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Out of the 11,000 people tested during the new initiative, 235 people have reportedly been identified with the mutation.
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Hundreds of people with Jewish ancestry found to have increased cancer risk
The NHS in England initiated a genetic testing programme for people ... for example people four in every 10 people who have an Ashkenazi Jewish background have been found to carry the gene change ...