Pharmacogenomics: current status and future perspectives

M Pirmohamed - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Inter-individual variability in drug response, be it efficacy or safety, is common and likely to
become an increasing problem globally given the growing elderly population requiring …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

L Yengo, S Vedantam, E Marouli, J Sidorenko, E Bartell… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–
50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic scoring accuracy varies across the genetic ancestry continuum

Y Ding, K Hou, Z Xu, A Pimplaskar, E Petter, K Boulier… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Polygenic scores (PGSs) have limited portability across different groupings of individuals (for
example, by genetic ancestries and/or social determinants of health), preventing their …

Validation of biomarkers of aging

M Moqri, C Herzog, JR Poganik, K Ying, JN Justice… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
The search for biomarkers that quantify biological aging (particularly 'omic'-based
biomarkers) has intensified in recent years. Such biomarkers could predict aging-related …

Challenges and opportunities for developing more generalizable polygenic risk scores

Y Wang, K Tsuo, M Kanai, BM Neale… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate an individual's genetic likelihood of complex traits and
diseases by aggregating information across multiple genetic variants identified from genome …

Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease

PF Sullivan, JRS Meadows, S Gazal, BDN Phan, X Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thousands of genomic regions have been associated with heritable human diseases, but
attempts to elucidate biological mechanisms are impeded by an inability to discern which …

The Singapore national precision medicine strategy

E Wong, N Bertin, M Hebrard, R Tirado-Magallanes… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Precision medicine promises to transform healthcare for groups and individuals through
early disease detection, refining diagnoses and tailoring treatments. Analysis of large-scale …

Calibrated prediction intervals for polygenic scores across diverse contexts

K Hou, Z Xu, Y Ding, R Mandla, Z Shi, K Boulier… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic scores (PGS) have emerged as the tool of choice for genomic prediction in a wide
range of fields. We show that PGS performance varies broadly across contexts and …

[HTML][HTML] Selection, optimization and validation of ten chronic disease polygenic risk scores for clinical implementation in diverse US populations

NJ Lennon, LC Kottyan, C Kachulis, NS Abul-Husn… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have improved in predictive performance, but several
challenges remain to be addressed before PRSs can be implemented in the clinic, including …