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Population based allele frequencies of disease associated polymorphisms in the Personalized Medicine Research Project.
BMC genetics - 17 Jun 2010
Cross Deanna S, Ivacic Lynn C, Stefanski Elisha L, McCarty Catherine A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of knowledge regarding the frequency of disease associated polymorphisms in populations and population attributable risk for many populations remains unknown. Factors that could affect the association of the allele with disease, either positively or negatively, such as race, ethnicity, and gender, may not be possible to determine without population based allele frequencies.Here we used...
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