Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer in Korean women.

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BACKGROUND: Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for breast cancer, developed using European and Asian genome-wide association studies (GWAS), have been shown to have good discrimination in Asian women. However, prospective calibration of absolute risk prediction models, based on a PRS or PRS combined with lifestyle, clinical and environmental factors, in Asian women is limited. METHODS: We consider several PRSs trained...

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