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Multiple diseases in carrier probability estimation: accounting for surviving all cancers other than breast and ovary in BRCAPRO.
Statistics in medicine - 30 Sept 2008
Katki Hormuzd A, Blackford Amanda, Chen Sining, Parmigiani Giovanni
Abstract excerpt
Mendelian models can predict who carries an inherited deleterious mutation of known disease genes based on family history. For example, the BRCAPRO model is commonly used to identify families who carry mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2, based on familial breast and ovarian cancers. These models incorp...
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