Polygenic scores in biomedical research

IJ Kullo, CM Lewis, M Inouye, AR Martin… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Public health strategies aimed at disease prevention or early detection and intervention
have the potential to advance human health worldwide. However, their success depends on …

Tutorial: a guide to performing polygenic risk score analyses

SW Choi, TSH Mak, PF O'Reilly - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
A polygenic score (PGS) or polygenic risk score (PRS) is an estimate of an individual's
genetic liability to a trait or disease, calculated according to their genotype profile and …

[PDF][PDF] Addressing the challenges of polygenic scores in human genetic research

J Novembre, C Stein, S Asgari… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
The genotyping of millions of human samples has made it possible to evaluate variants
across the human genome for their possible association with risks for numerous diseases …

Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments

CM Lewis, E Vassos - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies have shown unequivocally that common complex
disorders have a polygenic genetic architecture and have enabled researchers to identify …

Challenges and opportunities for developing more generalizable polygenic risk scores

Y Wang, K Tsuo, M Kanai, BM Neale… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate an individual's genetic likelihood of complex traits and
diseases by aggregating information across multiple genetic variants identified from genome …

The emerging field of polygenic risk scores and perspective for use in clinical care

T Yanes, AM McInerney-Leo, MH Law… - Human molecular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Genetic testing is used widely for diagnostic, carrier and predictive testing in monogenic
diseases. Until recently, there were no genetic testing options available for multifactorial …

Implementation and implications for polygenic risk scores in healthcare

JL Slunecka, MD van der Zee, JJ Beck, BN Johnson… - Human genomics, 2021 - Springer
Increasing amounts of genetic data have led to the development of polygenic risk scores
(PRSs) for a variety of diseases. These scores, built from the summary statistics of genome …

Improving reporting standards for polygenic scores in risk prediction studies

H Wand, SA Lambert, C Tamburro, MA Iacocca… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs), which often aggregate results from genome-wide association
studies, can bridge the gap between initial discovery efforts and clinical applications for the …

Validity of polygenic risk scores: are we measuring what we think we are?

ACJW Janssens - Human molecular genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have become the standard for quantifying genetic liability in
the prediction of disease risks. PRSs are generally constructed as weighted sum scores of …

PRSice: polygenic risk score software

J Euesden, CM Lewis, PF O'reilly - Bioinformatics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A polygenic risk score (PRS) is a sum of trait-associated alleles across many genetic loci,
typically weighted by effect sizes estimated from a genome-wide association study. The …