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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2017-10-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01284-y |