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Prediction of individual genetic risk of complex disease.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Jun 2008
Wray Naomi R, Goddard Michael E, Visscher Peter M
Abstract excerpt
Most common diseases are caused by multiple genetic and environmental factors. In the last 2 years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified polymorphisms that are associated with risk to common disease, but the effect of any one risk allele is typically small. By combining information from many risk variants, will it be possible to predict accurately each individual person's genetic risk for a...
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