Breakthrough: The Race to Find the Breast Cancer Gene

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	Breakthrough: The Race to Find the Breast Cancer Gene
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Kevin Davies, the editor of the journal Nature Genetics, and Michael White, a science journalist, have chronicled the search for BRCA1, the gene for "heritable" breast cancer. Though just 5 to 10 percent of the 183,000 cases diagnosed each year can be linked to this gene, scientists hope to find a connection between heritable and the more common "sporadic" breast cancer caused by genetic mutations. Based on the findings of Mary-Claire King at U.C. Berkeley, Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Project, and Mark Skolnick, cofounder of the Utah-based Myriad Genetics, Breakthrough applauds the discovery of BRCA1, but cautions against presuming it a "quick fix."