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Saying that Myriad was the first to discover BRCA1 is somewhat disingenuous; other labs did it independently at roughly the same time. Moreover, deciding when a
by jamesjporter 13y ago
Saying that Myriad was the first to discover BRCA1 is somewhat disingenuous; other labs did it independently at roughly the same time. Moreover, deciding when a gene was "discovered" is a minefield. What constitues discovery? Identification of a mutant? Cloning the gene? Sequencing it? There are many steps to this process.
- HarryHirsch 13y agoYou'd say that correlating certain mutations in the gene to increased risk of breast cancer constitutes discovery, it certainly does in the context of a clinical test for breast cancer, which is what Myriad is selling.