review of the literature discusses that the combined risk is 12.36%–20.83% forhaving 1 of the 10 hereditary cancer AJ founder mutations in the BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2 (OMIM 604373), APC (OMIM 611731), MSH2 (OMIM 609309), MSH6 (OMIM 600678), and GREM1 (OMIM 603054) genes for individuals of AJ ancestry. This evidence concerns the gene BRCA1 and hereditary cancer.