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Two genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked to hereditary breast cancer. Therefore in order to decrease the annual number of mammogram tests administered across a population and to more accurately assess a woman's individual risk of breast cancer, all women should be tested for these genes. Which of the following is the assumption? A. Some women who are tested for the two genes will subsequently undergo mammograms on a less frequent basis than they used to. B. The majority of breast cancer patients have no family history of the disease. C. Researchers may have identified a third breast cancer gene that is linked with hereditary breast cancer. D. Women who have these genes have an 90% chance of getting breast cancer while women who don't have these genes have only a 20% chance of getting breast cancer. E. The presence of BRCA1 and BRCA 2 can explain upto to 50% of hereditary cases OA l8r
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Re: Challanging CR - Two genes [#permalink]
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D is clean here. D is more of a strengthening choice too explaining the fact that the number of tests will reduce and the accuracy will increase too.
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Re: Challanging CR - Two genes [#permalink]
22 May 2011, 22:59
A. Some women who are tested for the two genes will subsequently undergo mammograms on a less frequent basis than they used to -this is partial- and weak. it says some women(not most), and it doesnt talk at all of "more accurately assess a woman's individual risk of breast cancer"
B. The majority of breast cancer patients have no family history of the disease.: This cant be an assumption as it will be weakening to the argument, so it cant be something that the argument depends on.
C. Researchers may have identified a third breast cancer gene that is linked with hereditary breast cancer.: Similar to B, this will actually be weakening to the argument
D. Women who have these genes have an 90% chance of getting breast cancer while women who don't have these genes have only a 20% chance of getting breast cancer. this brings into picture that even if there are reasons beyond the presence of these two genes, the instances are rarer. Therefore, it is a correct assumption.
E. The presence of BRCA1 and BRCA 2 can explain upto to 50% of hereditary cases upto 50%- very weak. as there would still be a lot of cases in which there wouldnt be this gene and the risk would still be there, which means testing for these genes cant accurately help assess the risk of breast cancer in more than 50% of the cases! incorrect.
Answer should be D
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Re: Challanging CR - Two genes [#permalink]
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amit2k9 wrote: D is clean here.
D is more of a strengthening choice too explaining the fact that the number of tests will reduce and the accuracy will increase too. How is D talking about reduction in number of tests?
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Re: Challanging CR - Two genes [#permalink]
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Guys Can I atleast know the conclusion here which needs to be supported and defended here? I am now facing a big problem in demarcating in the conclusion itself here 
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Re: Challanging CR - Two genes [#permalink]
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i find it in about 1.10 the time to read all the question. So, I think in somehow you overcalculate sometimes and I see this through your post.  Think in this way. We have the passage, and you must tackle the Cr (or almost this kind) so: Two genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked to hereditary breast cancer - PREMISE Therefore in order to decrease the annual number of mammogram tests administered across a population and to more accurately assess a woman's individual risk of breast cancer, all women should be tested for these genes - CONCLUSION But in this latter trying to go to the core of the question and eliminate the verbose part that put you in the wrong way or confuse you. In this case you read only the part in bold After this I do in that way: I read A and if cuold be good i hold it, if does not have nothing or add unuseful information...delete. without doubt. I read B and so on.......in this way you have for sure 2 or at most 3 choice and so you can pick between these. NOW: in this case thanks to the premise that says us: who have this 2 kind of genes could have breast cancer --------> all women should be tested for these genes. Here I see more clear that the only bridge that binds the two things is ONLY who has this markers - in medical meaning - has more risk to became a sick person, so make a mammogram e bla bla bla.......... To sum up, who has this genes should do the mammogram because have an high risk to fall ill.......who not could help to reduce the cost binds with the use and/or abuse of mammogram and weigh on health sector indeed the correct answer is D
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joshnsit wrote: Two genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked to hereditary breast cancer. Therefore in order to decrease the annual number of mammogram tests administered across a population and to more accurately assess a woman's individual risk of breast cancer, all women should be tested for these genes.
Which of the following is the assumption?
A. Some women who are tested for the two genes will subsequently undergo mammograms on a less frequent basis than they used to.
B. The majority of breast cancer patients have no family history of the disease.
C. Researchers may have identified a third breast cancer gene that is linked with hereditary breast cancer.
D. Women who have these genes have an 90% chance of getting breast cancer while women who don't have these genes have only a 20% chance of getting breast cancer.
E. The presence of BRCA1 and BRCA 2 can explain upto to 50% of hereditary cases
OA l8r I'm not sure why D is so popular in the above posts. I imagine the people posting above were answering the question "which of the following, if true, would strengthen the argument" and not "which of the following is an assumption in the argument". Those are very different questions. This is a kind of 'policy proposal' question, where we have a recommended course of action intended to achieve a certain goal. The conclusion here is that "all women should be tested for these genes", and one of the goals is to 'decrease the annual number of mammogram tests'. The assumption must be that testing for these genes will lead to fewer mammogram tests, which is what A says. D cannot possibly be the assumption here. For one thing, the data given is too precise. You would never need to assume that precisely *90%* of women with these genes get breast cancer for the conclusion to be valid; even if that percentage were relevant to the question (which it isn't) there's no reason we need to assume the percentage is equal to 90.
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Re: Challanging CR - Two genes [#permalink]
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I think the correct answer is A, becuase it is the bare minimum truth required to validate the conclusion. D should flash across as a red herring because nowhere in the stimulus anything related to percentage is mentioned.
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Re: Challanging CR - Two genes [#permalink]
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subhashghosh wrote: I think the correct answer is A, becuase it is the bare minimum truth required to validate the conclusion. D should flash across as a red herring because nowhere in the stimulus anything related to percentage is mentioned. Thanks for this discussion guys. Ian made it much clearer than the actual OE I have. The OA is A.
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Re: Challanging CR - Two genes [#permalink]
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Oh man !! Yes D is strengthening answer choice,as I mentioned this in my earlier post too. yes A is indeed the assumption here,thereby confirming that at least some woman will have lesser frequency of tests taken. A is indeed the answer here.
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mmmmmm I was quite sure about D. 
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Re: Challanging CR - Two genes [#permalink]
31 May 2011, 05:30
A. Keeping the scope of the conclusion in mind helped me with this one. Since the goal is to reduce mammogram tests the correct answer choice must relate to tests in some way.
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