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Foreword Familial Cancer 3: 175, 2004. The Bible tells us that Abraham, the Founding Father of characterization of Ashkenazi founder mutations in the Jews, came to Israel from the land that is Iraq in BRCA1, BRCA2, BLM, MSH2, MLH1 and other genes contemporary geography. From Israel, the Jews have has helped the medical community to improve genetic spread across the globe to touch multitudes of nations. testing strategies (e.g., the ability to test a discrete panel Paradoxically, the Jews are at the same time both one of BRCA1/2 founder mutations directly before sequenc- and many groups. In the course of the great diaspora ing the entire genes) and to interpret the significance of from Israel/Judea four thousand years ago they have these mutations. Ashkenazi Jews have relatively higher become many smaller groups separated by both great rates of colon and ovarian cancer, but relatively lower distances and centuries of time. But all these groups, rates of other cancers, such as cervical cancer. In from India to Europe and the Americas, share common ovarian cancer, and probably in breast cancer, the bonds of faith, language, and culture that define their genetic attributable fraction is relatively higher. It is our core identity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Familial Cancer Springer Journals

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Lipkin, Steven
Familial Cancer , Volume 3 (4) – Dec 30, 2004
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Familial Cancer 3: 175, 2004. The Bible tells us that Abraham, the Founding Father of characterization of Ashkenazi founder mutations in the Jews, came to Israel from the land that is Iraq in BRCA1, BRCA2, BLM, MSH2, MLH1 and other genes contemporary geography. From Israel, the Jews have has helped the medical community to improve genetic spread across the globe to touch multitudes of nations. testing strategies (e.g., the ability to test a discrete panel Paradoxically, the Jews are at the...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2004 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Biomedicine; Cancer Research; Human Genetics; Epidemiology; Biomedicine, general
ISSN
1389-9600
eISSN
1573-7292
DOI
10.1007/s10689-004-9536-0
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Abstract

Familial Cancer 3: 175, 2004. The Bible tells us that Abraham, the Founding Father of characterization of Ashkenazi founder mutations in the Jews, came to Israel from the land that is Iraq in BRCA1, BRCA2, BLM, MSH2, MLH1 and other genes contemporary geography. From Israel, the Jews have has helped the medical community to improve genetic spread across the globe to touch multitudes of nations. testing strategies (e.g., the ability to test a discrete panel Paradoxically, the Jews are at the same time both one of BRCA1/2 founder mutations directly before sequenc- and many groups. In the course of the great diaspora ing the entire genes) and to interpret the significance of from Israel/Judea four thousand years ago they have these mutations. Ashkenazi Jews have relatively higher become many smaller groups separated by both great rates of colon and ovarian cancer, but relatively lower distances and centuries of time. But all these groups, rates of other cancers, such as cervical cancer. In from India to Europe and the Americas, share common ovarian cancer, and probably in breast cancer, the bonds of faith, language, and culture that define their genetic attributable fraction is relatively higher. It is our core identity.

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Published: Dec 30, 2004

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