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Combined Effect of a Polygenic Risk Score and Rare Genetic Variants on Prostate Cancer Risk.
European urology - 1 Aug 2021
Darst Burcu F, Sheng Xin, Eeles Rosalind A, Kote-Jarai Zsofia, Conti David V, Haiman Christopher A
Abstract excerpt
Although prostate cancer is known to have a strong genetic basis and is influenced by both common and rare variants, the ability to investigate the combined effect of such genetic risk factors has been limited to date. We conducted an investigation of 81 094 men from the UK Biobank, including 3568 prostate cancer cases, to examine the combined effect of rare pathogenic/likely pathogenic/deleterious (P/LP/D)...
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