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BayesMendel: an R Environment for Mendelian Risk Prediction
17 Jan 2004
Abstract excerpt
Several important syndromes are caused by deleterious germline mutations of individual genes. In both clinical and research applications it is useful to evaluate the probability that an individual carries an inherited genetic variant of these genes, and to predict the risk of disease for that individual, using information on his/her family history. Mendelian risk prediction models accomplish these goals by...
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