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11/17/2008
Women with a ataxia-telangiectasia, or A-T, a gene mutation linked to breast cancer, may further raise their risk of the disease if they smoke. At least 1 percent of the population carries a mutation in the gene, but until now it had not been known whether smoking increases this risk even more.
Source: Reuters
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