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Adjusting for Ascertainment Bias in Meta-Analysis of Penetrance for Cancer Risk.
Statistics in medicine - 10 Feb 2025
Ruberu Thanthirige Lakshika M, Braun Danielle, Parmigiani Giovanni, Biswas Swati
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Multi-gene panel testing allows efficient detection of pathogenic variants in cancer susceptibility genes including moderate-risk genes such as ATM and PALB2. A growing number of studies examine the risk of breast cancer (BC) conferred by pathogenic variants of these genes. A meta-analysis combining the reported risk estimates can provide an overall estimate of age-specific risk of developing BC, that is,...
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