Scientists ID 5 Gene Variants Linked to Ovarian Cancer

"...The researchers analyzed the DNA of more than 10,000 women with ovarian cancer and more than 13,000 women without the disease. They found five genetic variants in regions of the genome (chromosomes 2, 3, 8, 17 and 19) associated with ovarian cancer risk.
"I think that the most important message women can take away from this work is that we are making progress in understanding ovarian cancer," Paul Pharoah, of Cancer Research UK Center for Genetic Epidemiology at Cambridge University, and senior author on two of the studies, said in the news release.....cont'd