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Systematic Classification of Disease Severity for Evaluation of Expanded Carrier Screening Panels.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Lazarin Gabriel A, Hawthorne Felicia, Collins Nicholas S, Platt Elizabeth A, Evans Eric A, Haque Imran S
Abstract excerpt
Professional guidelines dictate that disease severity is a key criterion for carrier screening. Expanded carrier screening, which tests for hundreds to thousands of mutations simultaneously, requires an objective, systematic means of describing a given disease's severity to build screening panels. We hypothesized that diseases with characteristics deemed to be of highest impact would likewise be rated as most...
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