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HBOC Lectures Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024 Describe the Myriad - BRCA situation and how that impacted genetic testing for HBOC genes. - ANSWER-Myriad discovered the BRCA genes and patented them so that other researchers and laboratories could not study/test for BRCA with payment and/or expressed consent to Myriad. In effect, Myriad had a monopoly on BRCA genes, and gene panels by other companies were incomplete without BRCA testing. So, instead of sending one patient sample to one la...