Genetic and environmental variation impact transferability of polygenic risk scores

Daniel S. Araújo; Heather E. Wheeler

doi:10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100687

Genetic and environmental variation impact transferability of polygenic risk scores

Daniel S. Araújo, Heather E. Wheeler

Department of Biology

Loyola University Chicago

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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 language	American English
Journal	History: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Volume	3
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100687
State	Published - Jul 19 2022

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polygenic risk scores
genetic variation
genome-wide association studies

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Genetic and environmental variation impact transferability of polygenic risk scores

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