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PRS

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-007031

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 polygenic risk score.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-007031
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Expansionspolygenic risk score
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-007031",
  "term": "PRS",
  "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 polygenic risk score.",
  "expansions": [
    "polygenic risk score"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/prs/"
}

Record 13,790 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.