Computing Individual Risks Based on Family History in Genetic Disease in the Presence of Competing Risks
When considering a genetic disease with variable age at onset (e.g., familial amyloid neuropathy, cancers), computing the individual risk of the disease based on family history (FH) is of critical interest for both clinicians and patients. Such a risk is very challenging to compute because 1 the gen...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2017-01-01
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Series: | Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9193630 |