Polygenic risk scores that predict common diseases using millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms: is more, better?

A Cecile, JW Janssens, MJ Joyner - Clinical chemistry, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Following a decade of slow progress in improving the genetic prediction of common
diseases with tempered expectations about the ultimate predictive ability of polygenic risk …

An atlas of polygenic risk score associations to highlight putative causal relationships across the human phenome

TG Richardson, S Harrison, G Hemani, G Davey Smith - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The age of large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has provided us with an
unprecedented opportunity to evaluate the genetic liability of complex disease using …

[HTML][HTML] Power and predictive accuracy of polygenic risk scores

F Dudbridge - PLoS genetics, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Polygenic scores have recently been used to summarise genetic effects among an
ensemble of markers that do not individually achieve significance in a large-scale …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic risk scores in the clinic: new perspectives needed on familiar ethical issues

ACF Lewis, RC Green - Genome Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Clinical use of polygenic risk scores (PRS) will look very different to the more familiar
monogenic testing. Here we argue that despite these differences, most of the ethical, legal …

Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations

Y Ruan, YF Lin, YCA Feng, CY Chen, M Lam, Z Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have attenuated cross-population predictive performance. As
existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been conducted predominantly in …

[PDF][PDF] Systematic comparison of family history and polygenic risk across 24 common diseases

N Mars, JV Lindbohm, P della Briotta Parolo… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Family history is the standard indirect measure of inherited susceptibility in clinical care,
whereas polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have more recently demonstrated potential for more …

[PDF][PDF] Leveraging multi-ethnic evidence for risk assessment of quantitative traits in minority populations

MA Coram, H Fang, SI Candille, TL Assimes… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
An essential component of precision medicine is the ability to predict an individual's risk of
disease based on genetic and non-genetic factors. For complex traits and diseases …