[PDF][PDF] Genome-wide risk prediction of common diseases across ancestries in one million people

N Mars, S Kerminen, YCA Feng, M Kanai, K Läll… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) measure genetic disease susceptibility by combining risk effects
across the genome. For coronary artery disease (CAD), type 2 diabetes (T2D), and breast …

[PDF][PDF] Incorporating family history of disease improves polygenic risk scores in diverse populations

MLA Hujoel, PR Loh, BM Neale, AL Price - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) derived from genotype data and family history (FH) of disease
provide valuable information for predicting disease risk, but PRSs perform poorly when …

[PDF][PDF] Inclusion of variants discovered from diverse populations improves polygenic risk score transferability

TB Cavazos, JS Witte - Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, 2021 - cell.com
The majority of polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been developed and optimized in
individuals of European ancestry and may have limited generalizability across other …

[HTML][HTML] On cross-ancestry cancer polygenic risk scores

LG Fritsche, Y Ma, D Zhang, M Salvatore, S Lee… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) can provide useful information for personalized risk stratification
and disease risk assessment, especially when combined with non-genetic risk factors …

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 …

Polygenic scores for height in admixed populations

BD Bitarello, I Mathieson - G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) use the results of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to
predict quantitative phenotypes or disease risk at an individual level, and provide a potential …

[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 …

[PDF][PDF] The construction of cross-population polygenic risk scores using transfer learning

Z Zhao, LG Fritsche, JA Smith, B Mukherjee… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
As most existing genome-wide association studies (GWASs) were conducted in European-
ancestry cohorts, and as the existing polygenic risk score (PRS) models have limited …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic transcriptome risk scores (PTRS) can improve portability of polygenic risk scores across ancestries

Y Liang, M Pividori, A Manichaikul, AA Palmer, NJ Cox… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are valuable to translate the results of genome-
wide association studies (GWAS) into clinical practice. To date, most GWAS have been …