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What’s Your Genetic Risk?

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English - May 21, 2021 01:17 - 28 minutes - 20.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
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In this week’s show, Beth talks with epidemiologist Genevieve Wojcik. We spoke about her work standardizing what is called the Polygenic Risk Score. This is a composite risk factor, extracted from information on many individual genes that can contribute to a disorder or genetic character. To find out more about her research visit her website. … Continue reading "What’s Your Genetic Risk?"

In this week’s show, Beth talks with epidemiologist Genevieve Wojcik. We spoke about her work standardizing what is called the Polygenic Risk Score. This is a composite risk factor, extracted from information on many individual genes that can contribute to a disorder or genetic character. To find out more about her research visit her website.


Executive Producer: Joel Parker

Producer: Beth Bennett

Additional Contributions:Joel Parker


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