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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A gene located on chromosome 17 that normally helps to suppress cell growth. Inheriting an altered version of BRCA1 predisposes an individual to breast, ovarian, or prostate cancer. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For example, women who inherit certain forms of a gene called BRCA1 have an elevated risk of developing breast cancer. (references) | |
Even with a dominant allele such as the BRCA1 breast cancer susceptibility gene, for instance, the risk of disease by age 65 is 80 percent, not 100 percent. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BRCA1" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BRCA1" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Unclassified Items | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BRCA1": BRCA1 Protein. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
brca1 | 23 |
gene brca1 | 4 |
brca1 brca2 | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BRCA1"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | gène BRCA1 (BRCA1 gene, breast cancer 1 gene), gène 1 du cancer du sein (BRCA1 gene, breast cancer 1 gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | gene BRCA1 (BRCA1 gene, breast cancer 1 gene), gene 1 del cancro della mammella (BRCA1 gene, breast cancer 1 gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | a1brcay gen BRCA1 (BRCA1 gene, breast cancer 1 gene), gen 1 del cáncer de mama (BRCA1 gene, breast cancer 1 gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "1-a-b-c-r" | |
-1 letter: carb, crab. | |
-2 letters: arb, arc, bar, bra, cab, car. | |
-3 letters: ab, ar, ba. | |
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| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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