Polygenic Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans

MR Irvin, T Ge, A Patki, V Srinivasasainagendra… - Diabetes, 2024 - Am Diabetes Assoc
African Americans (AAs) have been underrepresented in polygenic risk score (PRS) studies.
Herein, we integrated genome-wide data from multiple observational studies on type 2 …

Validation of a trans-ancestry polygenic risk score for type 2 diabetes in diverse populations

T Ge, A Patki, V Srinivasasainagendra, YF Lin, MR Irvin… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
ABSTRACT Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a worldwide scourge caused by both genetic and
environmental risk factors that disproportionately afflicts communities of color. Leveraging …

Development and validation of a trans-ancestry polygenic risk score for type 2 diabetes in diverse populations

T Ge, MR Irvin, A Patki, V Srinivasasainagendra… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a worldwide scourge caused by both genetic
and environmental risk factors that disproportionately afflicts communities of color …

The utility of a type 2 diabetes polygenic score in addition to clinical variables for prediction of type 2 diabetes incidence in birth, youth and adult cohorts in an …

LE Wedekind, A Mahajan, WC Hsueh, P Chen… - Diabetologia, 2023 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis There is limited information on how polygenic scores (PSs), based on
variants from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of type 2 diabetes, add to clinical …

Polygenic prediction of type 2 diabetes in Africa

T Chikowore, K Ekoru, M Vujkovi, D Gill, F Pirie… - Diabetes …, 2022 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE Polygenic prediction of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in continental Africans is
adversely affected by the limited number of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic discovery and risk characterization in type 2 diabetes across diverse populations

LM Polfus, BF Darst, H Highland, X Sheng… - Human Genetics and …, 2021 - cell.com
Genomic discovery and characterization of risk loci for type 2 diabetes (T2D) have been
conducted primarily in individuals of European ancestry. We conducted a multiethnic …

304-OR: polygenic risk score predicts type 2 diabetes susceptibility in a diverse consumer genetic database

ML Multhaup, R Kita, N Eriksson, S Aslibekyan… - Diabetes, 2019 - Am Diabetes Assoc
With the rise in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D), as well as undiagnosed cases of
T2D and prediabetes (25% and 90%, respectively), early detection is imperative to minimize …

Evaluation of polygenic risk scores to differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes

M Shoaib, Q Ye, H IglayReger, MH Tan… - Genetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) quantify the genetic liability to disease and are calculated using
an individual's genotype profile and disease‐specific genome‐wide association study …

[HTML][HTML] Could personalised risk prediction for type 2 diabetes using polygenic risk scores direct prevention, enhance diagnostics, or improve treatment?

M Boecker, AG Lai - Wellcome Open Research, 2020 - wellcomeopenresearch.org
Over the past three decades, the number of people globally with diabetes mellitus has more
than doubled. It is estimated that by 2030, 439 million people will be suffering from the …

Ancestry effects on type 2 diabetes genetic risk inference in Hispanic/Latino populations

AT Chande, L Rishishwar, AB Conley… - BMC Medical …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Hispanic/Latino (HL) populations bear a disproportionately high
burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The ability to predict T2D genetic risk using polygenic risk …