Polygenic prediction via Bayesian regression and continuous shrinkage priors

T Ge, CY Chen, Y Ni, YCA Feng, JW Smoller - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have shown promise in predicting human complex traits and
diseases. Here, we present PRS-CS, a polygenic prediction method that infers posterior …

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 …

Significant sparse polygenic risk scores across 813 traits in UK Biobank

Y Tanigawa, J Qian, G Venkataraman… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We present a systematic assessment of polygenic risk score (PRS) prediction across more
than 1,500 traits using genetic and phenotype data in the UK Biobank. We report 813 sparse …

Winner's curse correction and variable thresholding improve performance of polygenic risk modeling based on genome-wide association study summary-level data

J Shi, JH Park, J Duan, ST Berndt, W Moy, K Yu… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Recent heritability analyses have indicated that genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
have the potential to improve genetic risk prediction for complex diseases based on …

Leveraging effect size distributions to improve polygenic risk scores derived from summary statistics of genome-wide association studies

S Song, W Jiang, L Hou, H Zhao - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Genetic risk prediction is an important problem in human genetics, and accurate prediction
can facilitate disease prevention and treatment. Calculating polygenic risk score (PRS) has …

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 …

[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 …

Incorporating functional priors improves polygenic prediction accuracy in UK Biobank and 23andMe data sets

C Márquez-Luna, S Gazal, PR Loh, SS Kim… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Polygenic risk prediction is a widely investigated topic because of its promising clinical
applications. Genetic variants in functional regions of the genome are enriched for complex …

PRSice-2: Polygenic Risk Score software for biobank-scale data

SW Choi, PF O'Reilly - Gigascience, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Polygenic risk score (PRS) analyses have become an integral part of
biomedical research, exploited to gain insights into shared aetiology among traits, to control …

Non-linear machine learning models incorporating SNPs and PRS improve polygenic prediction in diverse human populations

M Elgart, G Lyons, S Romero-Brufau… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are commonly used to quantify the inherited susceptibility for a
trait, yet they fail to account for non-linear and interaction effects between single nucleotide …