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Amber N. Hurson

University of North Carolina at Chapel HillORCID 0000-0001-7831-6660Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Genetics· 1

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Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:polygenic risk· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1

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Parichoy Pal ChoudhuryiD· 2 shared Ali Amin Al OlamaiD· 1 shared Alison P. KleiniD· 1 shared Amanda B. SpurdleiD· 1 shared Andrew BerchuckiD· 1 shared Beatrice S. MeliniD· 1 shared Ben KinnersleyiD· 1 shared Brenda M. BirmanniD· 1 shared

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GeneticsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedJul 3, 2020

Assessment of Polygenic Architecture and Risk Prediction based on Common Variants Across Fourteen Cancers

Yan Zhang, Amber N. Hurson, Haoyu Zhang…·Colon Cancer Family Registry (CCFR)

This study assesses polygenicity and risk prediction using common variants across 14 cancers, finding varying numbers of susceptibility variants and risk score effectiveness.

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humanGWAS summary statistics

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BioinformaticsPLoS ONEPeer-reviewedFeb 5, 2020

iCARE: An R Package to Build, Validate and Apply Absolute Risk Models

Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Paige Maas, Amber Wilcox…·Nilanjan Chatterjee

iCARE is an R package for building, validating, and applying absolute risk models using user-defined inputs and SNP data, demonstrated with breast cancer.

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statistical modelsoftware / tool

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