See Also: Cancer, breast, susceptibility genes(health)
Breast cancer susceptibility genes(health)
genes, breast cancer susceptibility(medicine)
Genes, breast cancer susceptibility(health)
cancer, breast, susceptibility genes(medicine)
Breast cancer susceptibility genes(medicine)
BRCA1 breast cancer susceptibility gene(health)
BRCA1 breast cancer susceptibility gene(medicine)
cancer susceptibility gene(medicine)
Breast cancer(medicine)

pre-Freudian (iou) and Genes, breast cancer susceptibility (health)


pre-Freudian (iou)



pre-Freudian adjective. M20.
[from PRE- 2 + FREUDIAN.]
Designating or characterized by attitudes that were accepted before Freud's work in psychoanalysis; occurring before the impact and influence of Freudian ideas.

Genes, breast cancer susceptibility (health)


Inherited factors that predispose to breast cancer. Put otherwise, these genes make one more susceptible to the disease and so increase the risk of developing breast cancer. Two of these genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, have been identified (and prominently publicized). Several Other genes (those for the Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Cowden disease, Muir-Torre syndrome, and ataxia-telangiectasia) are also known to predispose to breast cancer. However, since all of these known breast cancer susceptibility genes together do not account for more than a minor fraction (1/5th at most) of breast cancer that clusters in Families, it is clear that more breast cancer genes remain to be discovered.