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Polygenic risk score as a possible tool for identifying familial monogenic causes of complex diseases.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Jul 2022
Lu Tianyuan, Forgetta Vincenzo, Richards John Brent, Greenwood Celia M T
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PURPOSE: The study aimed to evaluate whether polygenic risk scores could be helpful in addition to family history for triaging individuals to undergo deep-depth diagnostic sequencing for identifying monogenic causes of complex diseases. METHODS: Among 44,550 exome-sequenced European ancestry UK Biobank participants, we identified individuals with a clinically reported or computationally predicted monogenic...
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