Inequality in genetic cancer risk suggests bad genes rather than bad luck

Cancer heritability estimates can be obtained via decomposing trait variance into genetic and other factors. Here, the authors obtain the distribution of absolute genetic risk for 15 common cancers, and they use a number of metrics to show that the genetic risk varies considerably across individuals...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mats Julius Stensrud, Morten Valberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01284-y