Novel methods for multi-ancestry polygenic prediction and their evaluations in 5.1 million individuals of diverse ancestry

H Zhang, J Zhan, J Jin, J Zhang, W Lu, R Zhao… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Polygenic risk scores are becoming increasingly predictive of complex traits, but their
suboptimal performance in non-European ancestry populations raises questions about their …

A new method for multiancestry polygenic prediction improves performance across diverse populations

H Zhang, J Zhan, J Jin, J Zhang, W Lu, R Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) increasingly predict complex traits; however, suboptimal
performance in non-European populations raise concerns about clinical applications and …

An ensemble penalized regression method for multi-ancestry polygenic risk prediction

J Zhang, J Zhan, J Jin, C Ma, R Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Great efforts are being made to develop advanced polygenic risk scores (PRS) to improve
the prediction of complex traits and diseases. However, most existing PRS are primarily …

Quantifying portable genetic effects and improving cross-ancestry genetic prediction with GWAS summary statistics

J Miao, H Guo, G Song, Z Zhao, L Hou, Q Lu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) calculated from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of
Europeans are known to have substantially reduced predictive accuracy in non-European …

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 …

BridgePRS: A powerful trans-ancestry Polygenic Risk Score method

C Hoggart, SW Choi, J García-González, T Souaiaia… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) have huge potential to contribute to biomedical
research and to a future of precision medicine, but to date their calculation relies largely on …

Improving polygenic risk prediction in admixed populations by explicitly modeling ancestral-differential effects via GAUDI

Q Sun, BT Rowland, J Chen, AV Mikhaylova… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have shown successes in clinics, but most PRS methods focus
only on participants with distinct primary continental ancestry without accommodating …

Improving polygenic risk prediction in admixed populations by explicitly modeling ancestral-specific effects via GAUDI

Q Sun, BT Rowland, J Chen, AV Mikhaylova, C Avery… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have shown successes in clinics, but most PRS methods have
focused only on individuals with one primary continental ancestry, thus poorly …

The construction of multi-ethnic polygenic risk score using transfer learning

Z Zhao, LG Fritsche, JA Smith, B Mukherjee, S Lee - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
As most existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were conducted in European
ancestry cohorts and as the existing PRS models have limited transferability across ancestry …

[PDF][PDF] A unified framework for cross-population trait prediction by leveraging the genetic correlation of polygenic traits

M Cai, J Xiao, S Zhang, X Wan, H Zhao, G Chen… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
The development of polygenic risk scores (PRSs) has proved useful to stratify the general
European population into different risk groups. However, PRSs are less accurate in non …