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Recent BRCAPRO upgrades significantly improve calibration.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Aug 2014
Mazzola Emanuele, Chipman Jonathan, Cheng Su-Chun, Parmigiani Giovanni
Abstract excerpt
The recent release of version 2.0-8 of the BayesMendel package contains an updated BRCAPRO risk prediction model, which includes revised modeling of contralateral breast cancer (CBC) penetrance, provisions for pedigrees of mixed ethnicity and an adjustment for mastectomies among family members. We estimated penetrance functions for CBC by a combination of parametric survival modeling of literature data and...
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