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NIEHS researchers and colleagues published in Nature Genetics research showing that mutations in the BRCA2 gene seldom appear to be involved in sporadic, non-inherited breast and ovarian cancers. In a study of 70 sporadic breast cancers and 55 ovarian cancers, there were alterations of the gene in only two of the breast cancers and none of the ovarian cancers. ...