Jennifer Williams was born with an inherited predisposition to breast cancer. 1. At the cellular and genetic level, what was she born with? 2. At birth, were cells in her breast genetically identical to cells in her liver? 3. Now that she has breast cancer, are her cancer cells genetically identical to her normal breast cells?
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