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Using polygenic risk modification to improve breast cancer prevention: study protocol for the PRiMo multicentre randomised controlled trial.
BMJ open - 5 Aug 2024
McInerny Simone, Mascarenhas Lyon, Yanes Tatiane, Petelin Lara, Chenevix-Trench Georgia, Southey Melissa C, Young Mary-Anne, James Paul A
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INTRODUCTION: Established personal and familial risk factors contribute collectively to a woman's risk of breast or ovarian cancer. Existing clinical services offer genetic testing for pathogenic variants in high-risk genes to investigate these risks but recent information on the role of common genomic variants, in the form of a Polygenic Risk Score (PRS), has provided the potential to further personalise breast...
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