polygenic
Britishadjective
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"Investigating such rare familial clusters offers a rare window into the polygenic inheritance of resilience and may help disentangle the genetic and epigenetic contributions to extreme longevity," notes Dr. de Castro.
From Science Daily
In addition to well known pathogenic variants such as BRCA1 and BRCA2, the study also evaluated smaller DNA changes that can be combined into a polygenic risk score.
From Science Daily
"The companies that offer gene panel testing are not the same ones that provide polygenic risk scores."
From Science Daily
Looking at his genome, and comparing it with polygenic scores, they found that Hitler had a high predisposition for autism, ADHD, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
From BBC
"The last 10 years, we've been working towards using polygenic risk scores to predict disease. It's very challenging because many diseases are caused by thousands of variations across the genome," Speed explains.
From Science Daily
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