article_snippet.sent: Emma Hannigan was told in 2005 that Emma Hannigan carried the faulty BRCA1 gene, which increases a woman's chance of getting breast cancer by 85 per cent, and ovarian cancer by 50 per cent.
article_snippet.sent: The odds reduce a woman's risk to lower than that of the average for women who do not carry the mutated gene. '
article_snippet.sent: Women who inherit the faulty, or mutated, BRCA1 or BRCA2
article_snippet.sent: Genetic tests are available to women who are likely to have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, or faults in two other genes called TP53 and PTEN.
article_snippet.sent: BRCA gene faults are more common in the Ashkenazi Jewish population, about 2.3 per cent of Ashkenazi Jewish women have a BRCA gene mutation.
highlights_snippet.sent: Emma Hannigan was diagnosed with the faulty BRCA1 gene in 2005 .
  