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Heidi Marjonen1,2, Minttu Marttila1, Teemu Paajanen1,2
1Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Abstract:
We present a method for communicating personalized genetic risk information to citizens and their physicians using a secure web portal. We apply the method for 3,177 Finnish individuals in the P5 Study where estimates of genetic and absolute risk, based on genetic and clinical risk factors, of future disease are reported to study participants, allowing individuals to participate in managing their own health. Our method facilitates using polygenic risk score as a personalized tool to estimate a person's future disease risk while offering a way for health care professionals to utilize the polygenic risk scores as a preventive tool in patient care.
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