15 years of GWAS discovery: realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

Advances and applications of polygenic scores for coronary artery disease

AP Patel, AV Khera - Annual Review of Medicine, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Polygenic scores quantify inherited risk by integrating information from many common sites
of DNA variation into a single number. Rapid increases in the scale of genetic association …

A multi-ancestry polygenic risk score improves risk prediction for coronary artery disease

AP Patel, M Wang, Y Ruan, S Koyama, SL Clarke… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of individuals at highest risk of coronary artery disease (CAD)—ideally before
onset—remains an important public health need. Prior studies have developed genome …

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 …

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 …

Patient and provider perspectives on polygenic risk scores: implications for clinical reporting and utilization

ACF Lewis, EF Perez, AER Prince, HR Flaxman… - Genome Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Polygenic risk scores (PRS), which offer information about genomic risk for
common diseases, have been proposed for clinical implementation. The ways in which PRS …

Clinical utility of polygenic risk scores: a critical 2023 appraisal

S Koch, J Schmidtke, M Krawczak… - Journal of Community …, 2023 - Springer
Since their first appearance in the context of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in 2009,
polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been described for a large number of common complex …

Polygenic scores in cancer

X Yang, S Kar, AC Antoniou, PDP Pharoah - Nature reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Since the publication of the first genome-wide association study for cancer in 2007,
thousands of common alleles that are associated with the risk of cancer have been …

Recent advances in polygenic scores: translation, equitability, methods and FAIR tools

R Xiang, M Kelemen, Y Xu, LW Harris, H Parkinson… - Genome Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Polygenic scores (PGS) can be used for risk stratification by quantifying individuals' genetic
predisposition to disease, and many potentially clinically useful applications have been …

Ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores are risk enhancers for clinical cardiovascular disease assessments

GB Busby, S Kulm, A Bolli, J Kintzle… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Clinical implementation of new prediction models requires evaluation of their utility in a
broad range of intended use populations. Here we develop and validate ancestry-specific …