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polygenic risk score

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-006795

An assessment of the risk of a specific condition based on the collective influence of many genetic variants. These can include variants associated with genes of known function and variants not known to be associated with genes relevant to the condition. Also called PRS.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-006795
FieldOncology and biomedicine
SynonymsPRS
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-006795",
  "term": "polygenic risk score",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "An assessment of the risk of a specific condition based on the collective influence of many genetic variants. These can include variants associated with genes of known function and variants not known to be associated with genes relevant to the condition. Also called PRS.",
  "synonyms": [
    "PRS"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/polygenic-risk-score/"
}

Record 13,446 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.