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Leveraging Multi-ethnic Evidence for Risk Assessment of Quantitative Traits in Minority Populations.
American journal of human genetics - 3 Aug 2017
Coram Marc A, Fang Huaying, Candille Sophie I, Assimes Themistocles L, Tang Hua
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An essential component of precision medicine is the ability to predict an individual's risk of disease based on genetic and non-genetic factors. For complex traits and diseases, assessing the risk due to genetic factors is challenging because it requires knowledge of both the identity of variants that influence the trait and their corresponding allelic effects. Although the set of risk variants and their allelic...
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