Genetic Predisposition to Disease
"Genetic Predisposition to Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A latent susceptibility to disease at the genetic level, which may be activated under certain conditions.
| Descriptor ID |
D020022
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.291.687.500 G05.380.355
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| Concept/Terms |
Genetic Predisposition to Disease- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Susceptibility
- Genetic Susceptibilities
- Susceptibilities, Genetic
- Susceptibility, Genetic
- Genetic Predisposition
- Genetic Predispositions
- Predispositions, Genetic
- Predisposition, Genetic
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Genetic Predisposition to Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Quantifying evidence for phenotypic specificity (PP4) for syndromic phenotypes: Large-scale integration of rare germline FH variants from diagnostic laboratory testing for HLRCC and renal cancer. Genet Med. 2025 Nov; 27(11):101565.
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Characteristics predicting reduced penetrance variants in the high-risk cancer predisposition gene TP53. HGG Adv. 2025 Oct 09; 6(4):100484.
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Association of gene variant type and location with breast cancer risk in the general population. Ann Oncol. 2025 Aug; 36(8):954-963.
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Pathogenic Variants in Cancer Susceptibility Genes Predispose to Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast. Clin Cancer Res. 2025 Jan 06; 31(1):130-138.
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Evidence-based recommendations for gene-specific ACMG/AMP variant classification from the ClinGen ENIGMA BRCA1 and BRCA2 Variant Curation Expert Panel. Am J Hum Genet. 2024 Sep 05; 111(9):2044-2058.
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Functional analysis and clinical classification of 462 germline BRCA2 missense variants affecting the DNA binding domain. Am J Hum Genet. 2024 03 07; 111(3):584-593.
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CHEK2 is not a Li-Fraumeni syndrome gene: time to update public resources. J Med Genet. 2023 11 27; 60(12):1215-1217.
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Functional and Clinical Characterization of Variants of Uncertain Significance Identifies a Hotspot for Inactivating Missense Variants in RAD51C. Cancer Res. 2023 08 01; 83(15):2557-2571.
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The landscape of reported VUS in multi-gene panel and genomic testing: Time for a change. Genet Med. 2023 12; 25(12):100947.
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Suspected clonal hematopoiesis as a natural functional assay of TP53 germline variant pathogenicity. Genet Med. 2022 03; 24(3):673-680.