Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations

L Kachuri, N Chatterjee, J Hirbo, DJ Schaid… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) summarize the genetic predisposition of a complex human trait
or disease and may become a valuable tool for advancing precision medicine. However …

Addressing the challenge of biomedical data inequality: An artificial intelligence perspective

Y Gao, T Sharma, Y Cui - Annual review of biomedical data …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) and other data-driven technologies hold great promise to transform
healthcare and confer the predictive power essential to precision medicine. However, the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Maternal and fetal origins of offspring blood pressure: statistical analysis using genetic correlation and genetic risk score-based Mendelian randomization

S Jin, T Wang, C Wenying, Y Wu… - International Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Epidemiological studies demonstrated that adverse in utero environment was
associated with increased risk of offspring high blood pressure, by using birthweight as the …

Transfer learning for classification of Alzheimer's disease based on genome wide data

AS Alatrany, W Khan, AJ Hussain… - IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a type of brain disorder that is regarded as a degenerative
disease because the corresponding symptoms aggravate with the time progression. Single …

MUSSEL: enhanced Bayesian polygenic risk prediction leveraging information across multiple ancestry groups

J Jin, J Zhan, J Zhang, R Zhao, J O'Connell, Y Jiang… - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are now showing promising predictive performance on a wide
variety of complex traits and diseases, but there exists a substantial performance gap across …

A polygenic risk score for Alzheimer's disease constructed using APOE-region variants has stronger association than APOE alleles with mild cognitive impairment in …

T Sofer, N Kurniansyah, E Granot-Hershkovitz… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Introduction Polygenic Risk Scores (PRSs) are summaries of genetic risk alleles for
an outcome. Methods We used summary statistics from five GWASs of AD to construct PRSs …

Benchmarking multi-ancestry prostate cancer polygenic risk scores in a real-world cohort

Y Shah, S Kulm, JT Nauseef, Z Chen… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Prostate cancer is a heritable disease with ancestry-biased incidence and mortality.
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) offer promising advancements in predicting disease risk …