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Incorporating both genetic and tobacco smoking data to identify high-risk smokers for lung cancer screening.
Carcinogenesis - 21 Jun 2021
Jia Guochong, Wen Wanqing, Massion Pierre P, Shu Xiao-Ou, Zheng Wei
Abstract excerpt
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently proposed to widen the current lung cancer screening guideline to include less-heavy smokers. We sought to incorporate both genetic and tobacco smoking data to evaluate the proposed new guideline in white smokers. We constructed a polygenic risk score (PRS) using lung cancer risk variants. Using data from 308 490 participants of European descent in the UK...
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