{"id":11484,"date":"2018-09-14T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11484"},"modified":"2018-09-13T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T15:22:57","slug":"study-cracks-open-the-secrets-of-the-cancer-causing-brca1-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11484","title":{"rendered":"Study cracks open the secrets of the cancer-causing BRCA1 gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">Lawsuits didn\u2019t do it, public shaming didn\u2019t do it, patients and doctors banding together to \u201cfree the data\u201d couldn\u2019t do it: For 22 years Myriad Genetics, one of the oldest genetic testing companies, has refused to make public its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/356\/6338\/586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proprietary database<\/a>\u00a0of BRCA1 variants, which lists more than 17,000 known misspellings in that major\u00a0\u201ccancer risk\u201d gene, along with the medical significance of each. The database lists which mutations increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, which do not, and which have an unknown health effect. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/09\/12\/brca1-cancer-gene-secrets-study\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=65895940&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8WG4CaCFSGGJN6ihc_9nJS8yflM5Jj3HKbR5EWbXiR7hQA0ST_c51j05gj2xLjeQJIUeS7ZeRm-wAaT7W8FBsT23DcMg&amp;_hsmi=65895940\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for STAT) Lawsuits didn\u2019t do it, public shaming didn\u2019t do it, patients and doctors banding together to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11485,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484\/revisions\/11485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}