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Aggregate penetrance of genomic variants for actionable disorders in European and African Americans.
Science translational medicine - 9 Nov 2016
Natarajan Pradeep, Gold Nina B, Bick Alexander G, McLaughlin Heather, Kraft Peter, Rehm Heidi L, Peloso Gina M, Wilson James G, Correa Adolfo, Seidman Jonathan G, Seidman Christine E, Kathiresan Sekar, Green Robert C
Abstract excerpt
In populations that have not been selected for family history of disease, it is unclear how commonly pathogenic variants (PVs) in disease-associated genes for rare Mendelian conditions are found and how often they are associated with clinical features of these conditions. We conducted independent, prospective analyses of participants in two community-based epidemiological studies to test the hypothesis that...
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