Disease risk scores for skin cancers

Disease risk scores for skin cancers

Predicting who will develop skin cancer is difficult. Here, the authors from 23andMe developed a polygenic risk score for skin cancer based on a questionnaire and genetic data from more than 210,000 individuals and suggest that the score could be used in early screening programmes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pierre Fontanillas, Babak Alipanahi, Nicholas A. Furlotte, Michaela Johnson, Catherine H. Wilson, 23andMe Research Team, Steven J. Pitts, Robert Gentleman, Adam Auton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20246-5
Description
Summary:Predicting who will develop skin cancer is difficult. Here, the authors from 23andMe developed a polygenic risk score for skin cancer based on a questionnaire and genetic data from more than 210,000 individuals and suggest that the score could be used in early screening programmes.
ISSN:2041-1723

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