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Ancestry-specific hereditary cancer panel yields: Moving toward more personalized risk assessment.
Journal of genetic counseling - 1 Aug 2020
Roberts Maegan E, Susswein Lisa R, Janice Cheng Wanchun, Carter Natalie J, Carter Amber C, Klein Rachel T, Hruska Kathleen S, Marshall Megan L
Abstract excerpt
Healthcare disparities in genomic medicine are well described. Despite some improvements, we continue to see fewer individuals of African American, Asian, and Hispanic ancestry undergo genetic counseling and testing compared to those of European ancestry. It is well established that variant of uncertain significance (VUS) rates are higher among non-European ancestral groups undergoing multi-gene hereditary cancer...
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