Interplay of Mendelian and polygenic risk factors in Arab breast cancer patients.
Mohammed Al-JumaanHoyin ChuAbdullah AlsulaimanSabrina Y CampSeunghun HanRiaz GillaniYousef Al MarzooqFatmah AlmulhimChittibabu VatteAreej Al NemerAfnan AlmuhannaEliezer M Van AllenAmein Al-AliSaud H AlDubayanPublished in: Genome medicine (2023)
Overall, our study provides a framework to assess polygenic risk in an understudied population using lpWGS and identifies common variant risk as a factor independent of pathogenic variant carrier status for earlier age of onset of breast cancer among indigenous Arab breast cancer patients.