Research Review: A guide to computing and implementing polygenic scores in developmental research

AG Allegrini, JR Baldwin, W Barkhuizen… - Journal of Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing availability of genotype data in longitudinal population‐and family‐based
samples provides opportunities for using polygenic scores (PGS) to study developmental …

Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses

T Schoeler, D Speed, E Porcu, N Pirastu… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
While volunteer-based studies such as the UK Biobank have become the cornerstone of
genetic epidemiology, the participating individuals are rarely representative of their target …

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 …

Polygenic basis and biomedical consequences of telomere length variation

V Codd, Q Wang, E Allara, C Musicha, S Kaptoge… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Telomeres, the end fragments of chromosomes, play key roles in cellular proliferation and
senescence. Here we characterize the genetic architecture of naturally occurring variation in …

Leveraging fine-mapping and multipopulation training data to improve cross-population polygenic risk scores

O Weissbrod, M Kanai, H Shi, S Gazal, WJ Peyrot… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores suffer reduced accuracy in non-European populations, exacerbating
health disparities. We propose PolyPred, a method that improves cross-population …

Polygenic scores in psychiatry: on the road from discovery to implementation

CM Lewis, E Vassos - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2022 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
The hypothesis that multiple genetic variants contribute to psychiatric disorders was first
proposed for schizophrenia in the 1960s, based on epidemiological data (1). This polygenic …

A comparison of ten polygenic score methods for psychiatric disorders applied across multiple cohorts

G Ni, J Zeng, JA Revez, Y Wang, Z Zheng, T Ge… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Polygenic scores (PGSs), which assess the genetic risk of individuals
for a disease, are calculated as a weighted count of risk alleles identified in genome-wide …

The construction of cross-population polygenic risk scores using transfer learning

Z Zhao, LG Fritsche, JA Smith, B Mukherjee… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
As most existing genome-wide association studies (GWASs) were conducted in European-
ancestry cohorts, and as the existing polygenic risk score (PRS) models have limited …

Quantifying portable genetic effects and improving cross-ancestry genetic prediction with GWAS summary statistics

J Miao, H Guo, G Song, Z Zhao, L Hou, Q Lu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) calculated from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of
Europeans are known to have substantially reduced predictive accuracy in non-European …

Leveraging functional genomic annotations and genome coverage to improve polygenic prediction of complex traits within and between ancestries

Z Zheng, S Liu, J Sidorenko, Y Wang, T Lin, L Yengo… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
We develop a method, SBayesRC, that integrates genome-wide association study (GWAS)
summary statistics with functional genomic annotations to improve polygenic prediction of …