Assessment of Polygenic Architecture and Risk Prediction based on Common Variants Across Fourteen Cancers
Yan Zhang, Amber N. Hurson, Haoyu Zhang, Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Douglas F. Easton, Roger Laughlin Milne, Jacques Simard, Per N Hall, Kyriaki Michailidou, Joe Dennis, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Jenny C. Chang-Claude, Puya Gharahkhani, David C. Whiteman, Peter T. Campbell, , 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.
Nature Communications · Jul 3, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics