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MOUSE mammary tumour virus (MTV) causes breast cancer in mice. The mouse-MTV system is a useful model in the search for the hypothetical human mammary tumour virus (HMTV) causing the parallel disease in women. B particles similar in morphology to MTV were observed in negatively stained preparations of human milk by Moore et al.1, and there seemed to be a connexion between the appearance of particles in the milk and the incidence of breast cancer among women.
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CHARNEY, J., MOORE, D. Biological Sciences: Neutralization of Murine Mammary Tumour Virus by Sera of Women with Breast Cancer. Nature 229, 627–628 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229627a0
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