Vanderbilt University: Study Finds Certain Genetic Test Not Useful in Predicting Heart Disease Risk
February 28, 2020
February 28, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 28 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
A Polygenic Risk Score -- a genetic assessment that doctors have hoped could predict coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients -- has been found not to be a useful predictive biomarker for disease risk, according to a Vanderbilt study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Lead author Jonathan Mosley, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine and B . . .
A Polygenic Risk Score -- a genetic assessment that doctors have hoped could predict coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients -- has been found not to be a useful predictive biomarker for disease risk, according to a Vanderbilt study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Lead author Jonathan Mosley, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine and B . . .