Polygenic Risk (image)

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Caption

The researchers gathered data from large-scale genome-wide association studies to identify genetic variants associated with each disease, and combined information from all of the variants into a single "polygenic risk test."

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Lauren Solomon

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