Breakthrough: The Race to Find the Breast Cancer Gene

by Kevin Davies

Book Overview

September 1994. "The most impassioned and publicly visible of all genetic races" (The New York Times) comes to a triumphant close with the discovery of BRCA1, popularly known as the breast cancer gene. The result of a four-year international effort involving scientists from the United States, Canada, England, France, and Japan, among others, it is hailed as one of the most significant discoveries in recent medical science. Breakthrough is the brilliant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471120251
• ISBN13: 9780471120254
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"