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Prevalence of clinically actionable disease variants in exceptionally long-lived families.
BMC medical genomics - 10 Apr 2020
Carlson Paige, Wojczynski Mary K, Druley Todd, Lee Joseph H, Zmuda Joseph M, Thyagarajan Bharat
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Phenotypic expression of pathogenic variants in individuals with no family history of inherited disorders remains unclear. METHODS: We evaluated the prevalence of pathogenic variants in 25 genes associated with Mendelian-inherited disorders in 3015 participants from 485 families in the Long Life Family Study (LLFS). Boot-strapping and Fisher's exact test were used to determine whether allele...
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