Massachusetts General Hospital: Genetic Risk Scores May Improve Clinical Identification of Patients at Increased Heart Attack Risk
June 03, 2020
June 03, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 3 -- Massachusetts General Hospital issued the following news release:
Genetic variants have been linked with a higher risk of having a heart attack, permitting the calculation of "polygenic risk scores" (PRS) that quantify patients' inherited susceptibility based on the number of variants they have.
A team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Har . . .
Genetic variants have been linked with a higher risk of having a heart attack, permitting the calculation of "polygenic risk scores" (PRS) that quantify patients' inherited susceptibility based on the number of variants they have.
A team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Har . . .