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Transmission of breast cancer polygenic risk based on single nucleotide polymorphisms.
Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Oct 2018
Cox David G, Heudel Pierre-Etienne, Henry Julie, Pivot Xavier
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AIM: The goal of the present study was to further refine how polygenic risk scores may be used in a large population and to quantify the transmission of risk score through generations. METHODS: Allele frequencies from the 1000 Genomes data for 159 single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with breast cancer risk were used. A breast cancer risk score was calculated among 100,000 people. Choosing two "parents" and...
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