About The Study: This study identified 5.05% of individuals carrying pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants, suggesting a higher-than-expected prevalence of key cancer susceptibility genes in a large, unselected population.
Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Joshua Arbesman, MD, email Arbesmj@ccf.org .
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