How accurate can genetic predictions be?

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Dreyfuss, Jonathan M ^a,b   Levner, Daniel ^c,d   Galagan, James E ^e,f   Church, George M ^c,d   Ramoni, Marco F ^a,g,h  

^a LABORATORY FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^f Boston University   (United States)

^g HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDICTION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MODELS, GENETIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84871871099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-340     Document Type: Article

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