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Computing Individual Risks Based on Family History in Genetic Disease in the Presence of Competing Risks.
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine - 1 Jan 2017
Nuel Gregory, Lefebvre Alexandra, Bouaziz Olivier
Abstract excerpt
When considering a genetic disease with variable age at onset (e.g., familial amyloid neuropathy, cancers), computing the individual risk of the disease based on family history (FH) is of critical interest for both clinicians and patients. Such a risk is very challenging to compute because (1) the genotype X of the individual of interest is in general unknown, (2) the posterior distribution ℙ(X∣FH, T > t) changes...
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