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 …

Genetic prediction of complex traits with polygenic scores: a statistical review

Y Ma, X Zhou - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Accurate genetic prediction of complex traits can facilitate disease screening, improve early
intervention, and aid in the development of personalized medicine. Genetic prediction of …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

mtPGS: Leverage multiple correlated traits for accurate polygenic score construction

C Xu, SK Ganesh, X Zhou - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Accurate polygenic scores (PGSs) facilitate the genetic prediction of complex traits and aid
in the development of personalized medicine. Here, we develop a statistical method called …

[HTML][HTML] PUMAS: fine-tuning polygenic risk scores with GWAS summary statistics

Z Zhao, Y Yi, J Song, Y Wu, X Zhong, Y Lin, TJ Hohman… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have wide applications in human genetics research, but often
include tuning parameters which are difficult to optimize in practice due to limited access to …

Integrating multiple traits for improving polygenic risk prediction in disease and pharmacogenomics GWAS

S Zhai, B Guo, B Wu, DV Mehrotra… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Polygenic risk score (PRS) has been recently developed for predicting complex traits and
drug responses. It remains unknown whether multi-trait PRS (mtPRS) methods, by …

Deselection of base-learners for statistical boosting—with an application to distributional regression

A Strömer, C Staerk, N Klein… - … Methods in Medical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a new procedure for enhanced variable selection for component-wise gradient
boosting. Statistical boosting is a computational approach that emerged from machine …

Additional SNPs improve risk stratification of a polygenic hazard score for prostate cancer

RA Karunamuni, MP Huynh-Le, CC Fan… - Prostate cancer and …, 2021 - nature.com
Background Polygenic hazard scores (PHS) can identify individuals with increased risk of
prostate cancer. We estimated the benefit of additional SNPs on performance of a previously …

Multi-task learning with summary statistics

P Knight, R Duan - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Multi-task learning has emerged as a powerful machine learning paradigm for integrating
data from multiple sources, leveraging similarities between tasks to improve overall model …

Estimation and inference with proxy data and its genetic applications

S Li, TT Cai, H Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.03727, 2022 - arxiv.org
Existing high-dimensional statistical methods are largely established for analyzing individual-
level data. In this work, we study estimation and inference for high-dimensional linear …