Genetic and environmental variation impact transferability of polygenic risk scores

Daniel S. Araújo, Heather E. Wheeler

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Abstract

Even when polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are trained in African ancestral populations, Kamiza and colleagues showed that genetic and environmental variation within sub-Saharan African populations impacts prediction performance, highlighting the challenges of clinical implementation of PRSs for risk assessment.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalHistory: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Volume3
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 19 2022

Keywords

  • polygenic risk scores
  • genetic variation
  • genome-wide association studies

Disciplines

  • Biology

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