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Molecular Diagnosis as a Probability of Necessity

Sep 2026 · medRxiv · 0 citations
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The Probability of Necessity (PN), a counterfactual estimand giving the probability that disease would not have occurred absent a germline variant, is developed and used to explore the logic and limitations of attributing a disease to genetic variants.

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