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B The chance (or risk) that a person will be diagnosed withcancer during their lifetimes can be quite variable and depends onseveral different factors. In this problem, please assume that awoman who inherits the inactivated BRCA2 allele has a 50% chance ofbeing diagnosed with cancer, and that a man who inherits the sameallele has a 10% chance. In the general population, the averagerisk of a breast cancer diagnosis for all women in the generalpopulation is about 8%, and the average risk for all men is about0.08%. What is the approximate risk of a breast cancer diagnosisfor each of these same four individuals?
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