Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Disease risk scores for skin cancers

  • Pierre Fontanillas,
  • Babak Alipanahi,
  • Nicholas A. Furlotte,
  • Michaela Johnson,
  • Catherine H. Wilson,
  • 23andMe Research Team,
  • Steven J. Pitts,
  • Robert Gentleman,
  • Adam Auton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20246-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Predicting who will develop skin cancer is difficult. Here, the authors from 23andMe developed a polygenic risk score for skin cancer based on a questionnaire and genetic data from more than 210,000 individuals and suggest that the score could be used in early screening programmes.