The announcement that a second breast cancer gene had been found (and patents applied for) little more than a year after it was mapped coincided with a report from a second group who also claimed to have discovered the gene.
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Gershon, D. Cancer gene patent rights in doubt. Nat Med 2, 133 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0296-133
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