Family history misses identifying individuals with high genetic risk of CVD or cancer

Sunday, May 3, 2020 - 09:20 in Health & Medicine

Certain genetic changes, termed 'pathogenic variants,' substantially increase risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer--the leading causes of death -- but testing to identify individual carriers is not part of current clinical practice.

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