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All-Cause Mortality Associated With New Sex-Specific Polygenic Risk Scores

Aug 05, 2020
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NEW YORK – A team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has combined polygenic risk scores (PRS) for more than two dozen conditions or mortality-related traits into a composite PRS (cPRS) for all-cause mortality that appears to show promise for distinguishing individuals with particularly long or short lifespans.

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