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Southern Research, MyOme, and Broad Clinical Labs will provide genetic testing and counselling to up to 30,000 Alabamians with $25 million in grants.
MyOme, Broad Clinical Labs Supporting Genetics-Based Personalized Health Risk Program in Alabama
The Catalyst program, conducted by nonprofit Southern Research, aims to bring genetics-driven clinical risk assessments to patients in Alabama free of charge.
The study suggested that PRS can refine lifetime breast cancer risk estimations, but experts caution against drawing strong conclusions from such a small study.
High PRS Equivalent to Rare Monogenic Risk Variants in Certain Cases in UK Biobank Population
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Current genetic screening programs might miss people with high disease risk as determined by PRS, who likely outnumber pathogenic mutation carriers.
Genetic Architecture of Metabolic Syndrome Teased out in Multivariate GWAS
Researchers found more than 1,300 metabolic syndrome-associated SNPs, providing insights into the genetics of related conditions.
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