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How much work is "interesting" doing in "anything interesting"? They haven't found genes for breast cancer but they have found them for skin color.
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are both genes where certain forms of them result in breast cancer being more likely, and we have a somewhat well understood mechanism for how they do this.