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Genetic-Ancestry Analysis on >93,000 Individuals Undergoing Expanded Carrier Screening Reveals Limitations of Ethnicity-Based Medical Guidelines
2019-12-27
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<h4>Purpose</h4> Despite strong association between genetic ancestry and carrier status, current carrier-screening guidelines recommend testing for a limited set of conditions based on a patient’s self-reported ethnicity, which conflates genetic and cultural factors. <h4>Materials and Methods</h4> For 93,419 individuals undergoing a 96-gene expanded carrier screen (ECS), correspondence was assessed among carrier s...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4297903d-b599-54f2-b169-06f27970448d
- DOI
- 10.1101/2019.12.21.19015578
