Increasing evidence of combinatory variant effects calls for revised classification of low-penetrance alleles

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Nicholas K Wang et al. Genet Med. 2019 Jun.

. 2019 Jun;21(6):1280-1282.

doi: 10.1038/s41436-018-0347-3. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Wang NK, Chiang JPW. Wang NK, et al. Genet Med. 2020 Jan;22(1):236-237. doi: 10.1038/s41436-019-0621-z. Epub 2019 Aug 9. Genet Med. 2020. PMID: 31395943 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Re-evaluation of the classification system for the clinical interpretation of genomic copy number variation.
Cody JD. Cody JD. Genet Med. 2020 Jan;22(1):234-235. doi: 10.1038/s41436-019-0619-6. Epub 2019 Aug 9. Genet Med. 2020. PMID: 31395944 No abstract available.

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