Genetic prediction of complex traits with polygenic scores: a statistical review

Y Ma, X Zhou - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Accurate genetic prediction of complex traits can facilitate disease screening, improve early
intervention, and aid in the development of personalized medicine. Genetic prediction of …

The potential of DNA methylation as a biomarker for obesity and smoking

A Heikkinen, S Bollepalli… - Journal of internal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that has consistently been shown to be linked
with a variety of human traits and diseases. Because DNA methylation is dynamic and …

UK Biobank release and systematic evaluation of optimised polygenic risk scores for 53 diseases and quantitative traits

DJ Thompson, D Wells, S Selzam, I Peneva, R Moore… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
We present and assess the UK Biobank (UKB) Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Release, a set of
PRSs for 28 diseases and 25 quantitative traits being made available on the individuals in …

A systematic evaluation of the performance and properties of the UK Biobank Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Release

DJ Thompson, D Wells, S Selzam, I Peneva, R Moore… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
We assess the UK Biobank (UKB) Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Release, a set of PRSs for 28
diseases and 25 quantitative traits that has been made available on the individuals in UKB …

Large uncertainty in individual polygenic risk score estimation impacts PRS-based risk stratification

Y Ding, K Hou, KS Burch, S Lapinska, F Privé… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although the cohort-level accuracy of polygenic risk scores (PRSs)—estimates of genetic
value at the individual level—has been widely assessed, uncertainty in PRSs remains …

Genetic risk for overall cancer and the benefit of adherence to a healthy lifestyle

M Zhu, T Wang, Y Huang, X Zhao, Y Ding, M Zhu, M Ji… - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
Cancer site–specific polygenic risk scores (PRS) effectively identify individuals at high risk of
individual cancers, but the effectiveness of PRS on overall cancer risk assessment and the …

Genetic risk factors have a substantial impact on healthy life years

S Jukarainen, T Kiiskinen, S Kuitunen, AS Havulinna… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The impact of genetic variation on overall disease burden has not been comprehensively
evaluated. We introduce an approach to estimate the effect of genetic risk factors on …

Relation of Life's Essential 8 to the genetic predisposition for cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality: results from a national prospective cohort

J Zhang, G Chen, Z Habudele, X Wang… - European Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Aims To evaluate the independent, mediating, interactive, and associated effects of Life's
Essential 8 (LE8) and genetic predisposition on the risk of cardiovascular outcomes and all …

Androgen receptor binding sites enabling genetic prediction of mortality due to prostate cancer in cancer-free subjects

S Ito, X Liu, Y Ishikawa, DD Conti, N Otomo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Prostate cancer (PrCa) is the second most common cancer worldwide in males. While
strongly warranted, the prediction of mortality risk due to PrCa, especially before its …

Polygenic health index, general health, and pleiotropy: sibling analysis and disease risk reduction

E Widen, L Lello, TG Raben, LCAM Tellier, SDH Hsu - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
We construct a polygenic health index as a weighted sum of polygenic risk scores for 20
major disease conditions, including, eg, coronary artery disease, type 1 and 2 diabetes …