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What can SNPs tell us about breast cancer risk? Not much, researchers say

March 17, 2010 | 4:29 pm
There are certainly many genetic mutations that increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer. The most famous examples are variations in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 (whose names are short for BReast CAncer).

More common are the single-letter DNA changes called single nucleotide polymorphisms– or SNPs for short. Researchers have identified many SNPs that appear to be associated with breast cancer because they are more common in women who have the disease.

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after spending almost the whole day to fix the server, we came to the conclusion …

- my co-worker: “OK!  After much sweat, back ache and a little blood I got a working chassis, 48GB of RAM and the damn thing is booting.stay tuned for a successful ssh so I can go home.LOL”
- me: “Any luck ?”
- my co-worker: “Alright after sending that last email I went back to the server to find that the sticky that I wrote the new MAC on was gone from the PDU I stuck it to.  After searching all around I found it under a rack in the next isle.  I have now updated the config files for eth0 and eth1 and the server is rebooting.if it doesn’t come online and is able to ssh into it can I pretty please take it out back and shoot it!!! ”

I’m definitely not a type of politic person. At my age, old people usually think of us as careless and all young people do are having fun and party all year round! ^^ (as what I used to ^^)

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