Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities

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• Publication year

  2019

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  Nature Genetics

• Publication date

  2019-03-29

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  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/s41588-019-0379-xPMID 30926966PMCID PMC6563838
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