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SUBMITTER: Na R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4955174 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Na Rong R Ye Dingwei D Qi Jun J Liu Fang F Lin Xiaoling X Helfand Brian T BT Brendler Charles B CB Conran Carly C Gong Jian J Wu Yishuo Y Gao Xu X Chen Yaqing Y Zheng S Lilly SL Mo Zengnan Z Ding Qiang Q Sun Yinghao Y Xu Jianfeng J
Asian journal of andrology 20160701 4
Genetic risk score (GRS) based on disease risk-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is an informative tool that can be used to provide inherited information for specific diseases in addition to family history. However, it is still unknown whether only SNPs that are implicated in a specific racial group should be used when calculating GRSs. The objective of this study is to compare the performance of race-specific GRS and nonrace-specific GRS for predicting prostate cancer (PCa) amon ...[more]