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What You Need to Know About Estrogen and the KRAS-variant

Joanne Weidhaas is MiraKind’s founder and one of the scientists responsible for discovering the KRAS-variant, an inherited genetic mutation that predicts an increased risk of cancer. Following this breakthrough, Dr. Weidhaas and…

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Let’s Talk Menopause (Finally)

Menopause: a condition that 100% of women will experience, yet so few of us feel comfortable talking about. We all know something about menopause, but just like pregnancy or bungee jumping, you…

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The KRAS-Variant and Breast Cancer: Understanding Genetic Risk

Last updated: 11/25/2025 Most people are familiar with BRCA1 and BRCA2, the genes best known for their link to hereditary breast cancer. Discoveries of these mutations have offered important clues about inherited…

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The truth about GWAS and the KRAS-variant

Although much of the world has accepted that GWAS studies, which use an outdated technology looking at large amounts of data, have failed to find any functional mutations, this approach has twice…

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