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Translating genomics into improved population screening: hype or hope?

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    Nora Pashayan

  2. Strangeways Research Laboratory, Departments of Oncology and Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK

    Paul Pharoah

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Pashayan, N., Pharoah, P. Translating genomics into improved population screening: hype or hope?. Hum Genet 130, 19–21 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-011-0985-x

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