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Polygenic Variation Affects Disease Risk From Monogenic Variants, Study Finds

Aug 20, 2020
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NEW YORK – Researchers from the Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Color, and elsewhere have found that polygenic background can modify the penetrance of disease risk variants in tier 1 genomic conditions such as familial hypercholesterolemia, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, and Lynch syndrome.

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