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Bayesian Assessment of Genetic Risk in Families with a Balanced Translocation.
Journal of genetic counseling - 1 Aug 2015
VanDerwerken Douglas
Abstract excerpt
An important problem from the field of genetics involves the calculation of a personalized risk estimate on behalf of a heterozygous carrier of a balanced translocation. Though phenotypically normal, the carrier may be at increased risk of having a child who is mentally and physically abnormal due to an unbalanced translocation of chromosomal segments. An accurate estimate of the probability of this event is...
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