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Family history and heritability of rotator cuff tears.
Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery - 1 Sept 2026
Prakash Ravi, Basnet Til Bahadur, Liu Wenting, Breyer Max Alexander, Ueland Simone D, Khazzam Michael S, Wolf Brian R, Li Xinning, Baumgarten Keith M, Cabrera Alison, DeAngelis Joseph P, Giri Ayush, Jain Nitin B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Prior studies suggest familial clustering of rotator cuff tears (RCT) but are limited by sample size or by approach, and no study has estimated narrow-sense heritability of RCT. We perform a comprehensive assessment of the familial heritability of RCT. METHODS: We used data from 3 studies: the cuffGen study, Vanderbilt Health Biorepository (BioVU), and UK Biobank (UKB). In cuffGen, imaging confirmed...
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