BORN IN SPAIN THE FIRST CHILD FREE OF A GENE LINKED TO CANCER
born in late 2010, but so far not been presented to society. For the first time in Spain, Catalan researchers have presented the first genetically selected baby before birth to avoid suffering a mutation strongly linked to breast cancer.
BRCA1, like his 'brother' BRCA2, a gene whose carriers (mostly women but also men) frequently suffer from breast tumors and in other locations such as the ovary or pancreas
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