A study has shown that BRCA1 mutation carriers possess an abnormally expanded luminal progenitor pool prior to cancer onset, and mice with tissue‐specific deletion of Brca1 and p53 in the luminal lineage develop mammary cancers that resemble human BRCA1 tumors histologically (Lim et al, 2009; Molyneux et al, 2010). Here, BRCA1 is linked to cancer.