A new method for multiancestry polygenic prediction improves performance across diverse populations

H Zhang, J Zhan, J Jin, J Zhang, W Lu, R Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) increasingly predict complex traits; however, suboptimal
performance in non-European populations raise concerns about clinical applications and …

Efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibition in metastatic uveal melanoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JP Pham, L On, L Ardolino, J Hurwitz… - Melanoma …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM) has historically been associated with short survival and
limited effective treatments. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have been trialed in mUM; …

Novel methods for multi-ancestry polygenic prediction and their evaluations in 5.1 million individuals of diverse ancestry

H Zhang, J Zhan, J Jin, J Zhang, W Lu, R Zhao… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Polygenic risk scores are becoming increasingly predictive of complex traits, but their
suboptimal performance in non-European ancestry populations raises questions about their …

SurvSet: An open-source time-to-event dataset repository

E Drysdale - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03094, 2022 - arxiv.org
Time-to-event (T2E) analysis is a branch of statistics that models the duration of time it takes
for an event to occur. Such events can include outcomes like death, unemployment, or …

Causal inference in case of near‐violation of positivity: comparison of methods

M Léger, A Chatton, F Le Borgne… - Biometrical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In causal studies, the near‐violation of the positivity may occur by chance, because of
sample‐to‐sample fluctuation despite the theoretical veracity of the positivity assumption in …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical outcomes in patients with COPD hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 versus non-SARS-CoV-2 community-acquired pneumonia

D Sheikh, N Tripathi, TR Chandler, S Furmanek… - Respiratory …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have poor
outcomes in the setting of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and severe acute …

Sociosexual Exposure Has Opposing Effects on Male and Female Actuarial Senescence in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster

WG Rostant, JS Mason, N West… - The Journals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Males and females rarely express the same length of life. Here, we studied how sociosexual
exposure shapes male and female age-specific mortality rates in Drosophila melanogaster …

Fast and scalable ensemble learning method for versatile polygenic risk prediction

T Chen, H Zhang, R Mazumder, X Lin - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) enhance population risk stratification and advance
personalized medicine, but existing methods face several limitations, encompassing issues …

A comparison of two frameworks for multi-state modelling, applied to outcomes after hospital admissions with COVID-19

CH Jackson, BDM Tom, PD Kirwan… - … Methods in Medical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We compare two multi-state modelling frameworks that can be used to represent dates of
events following hospital admission for people infected during an epidemic. The methods …

Disability progression in multiple sclerosis patients using early first‐line treatments

M Lefort, S Vukusic, R Casey, G Edan… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Therapeutic management of relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis
(RRMS) has evolved towards early treatment. The objective was to assess the impact of …