Association for Molecular Pathology joins ACLU to challenge gene...

Courtesy http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Tue, 05/12/2009 - 22:00

(Association for Molecular Pathology) The Association for Molecular Pathology announced today that it is working with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation to bring a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer are unconstitutional and should be invalidated.

Individuals with certain mutations along these two genes, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2, are at a significantly higher risk for developing hereditary breast and ovarian cancers.

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