Mutated versions of the gene are believed to be responsible for up to a third of cases of breast cancer in families with a history of the disease.
But there are only a few cases where we know the relationship of a specific mutation to a specific effect, and also only a small number of cases where an effect is determined by a single gene rather than the combined effects of hundreds or thousands of genes.
Then as now, it was understood that a few cases of shocking violence could silence a multitude.
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, where Patience is still fighting for her life, sees a dozen cases a year of this rare defect, called a congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Suppliers of frozen drinks machines have told Coke there had been a few cases of metal residue in dispensers in recent years, the company said.
In 1999 Pfizer had to severely limit use of Trovan, a potent antibiotic aimed at many bugs, after it was linked to a dozen cases of liver failure.
Google Scholar, the open source database used to identify published cases, is not a complete data base of state cases involving Shariah because as a search tool it allows retrieval only of those reported appellate and trial court level cases that are available through open sources.
Their surgeons treat only a handful of cases a year, not enough to gain expertise.
There's also a lack of enclosures for the Pico-ITX motherboard size, where there's a Catch 22 situation of manufacturers unwilling to create cases for a limited market, and consumers unwilling to buy motherboards without a decent array of cases.
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Going a step better, Millennium and Becton, Dickinson will soon introduce a test to predict which cases of melanoma, a nasty form of skin cancer, will metastasize.
Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases includes summaries of a sample of twenty cases, as well as the full published texts for all fifty cases.
As you can see from the picture above, we were able to get a video call going using Qik over WiFi, although there was quite a lot of delay and in some cases a serious amount of pixelation.
To supply a thousand cases of Kombucha, the business needed to buy the bottles first.
The official said about a dozen cases of potential misconduct by interrogators were referred to the Justice Department.
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"I'd say if you missed a year, you probably missed selling a million cases of Moscato, " said Mr. Steffanci.
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But in Beverly Hills, a real happening was taking place with just a few cases of Sancerre and some Pellegrino.
When a few cases of swine flu appeared in private schools and universities last month, the government closed down the lot.
Essex barrister David Dadds is dealing with about a dozen cases of people who think they have been unfairly rejected for new jobs.
Certainly, there have been quite a few cases of fraudulent insurance companies domestically, but the percentage of such fraud offshore is much higher.
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The hospital has also been hit by a number of cases of scabies, a skin disorder caused by tiny insects burrowing under the skin.
In the studies, Cholestin had no side effects, except for a few cases of flatulence, according to Joseph Chang, vice president of clinical affairs at Pharmanex.
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Also Tuesday, the U.S. Navy said it has canceled the deployment of one of its ships because of a number of possible cases of swine flu.
In that year 23, 000 British soldiers were hospitalised for treatment and the French government reported over a million cases of syphilis or gonorrhoea since the start of the war.
The covers apparently get their eye-catching look from their "dual-shot color" shells, with several of the cases a mix of either two colors or a white base and gently tinted outer layer.
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Cuts to government expenditure have caused more than 10, 000 suicides and up to a million cases of depression across Europe and North America, according to Oxford University researchers who published The Body Economic.
Pfizer said that its Lyrica, a follow-up to the blockbuster epilepsy and nerve pain drug Neurontin, has been associated with a few cases of muscle weakness, but that the company is still expecting U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the long-delayed drug.
In a small number of cases, a patient's breath may smell like bitter almonds due to the excretion of unmetabolized cyanide, but more often than not it's undetectable, according to Geller.
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"There's a lot of cases against companies in the financial sector, " said Jill Fisch, a professor of securities law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
But in a couple of cases, where I was more than 6 inches away from a simple object that was out of focus, clicking on it brought it into focus.
Fowler has been ruled out as a suspect in eight of the eighteen cases, though he remains a "person of interest" in the remaining nine open cases.
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