Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities

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Polygenic risk scoreBiologyMultifactorial InheritancePrecision medicineGenome-wide association studyHealth equityDiversity (politics)MedicineGeneticsPublic healthSingle-nucleotide polymorphismPolitical sciencePathology

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Year: 2019
Type: review
Volume: 51
Issue: 4
Pages: 584-591
Citations: 2616
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                                    Alicia R. Martin, 
                                
                                    Masahiro Kanai, 
                                
                                    Yoichiro Kamatani
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2019). 
                            Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities. 
                            Nature Genetics
                            , 51
                            (4)
                            , 584-591.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0379-x
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0379-x