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 …

Polygenic scores and their applications in kidney disease

A Khan, K Kiryluk - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2024 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered thousands of risk variants that
individually have small effects on the risk of human diseases, including chronic kidney …

An ensemble penalized regression method for multi-ancestry polygenic risk prediction

J Zhang, J Zhan, J Jin, C Ma, R Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Great efforts are being made to develop advanced polygenic risk scores (PRS) to improve
the prediction of complex traits and diseases. However, most existing PRS are primarily …

MUSSEL: Enhanced Bayesian polygenic risk prediction leveraging information across multiple ancestry groups

J Jin, J Zhan, J Zhang, R Zhao, J O'Connell, Y Jiang… - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are now showing promising predictive performance on a wide
variety of complex traits and diseases, but there exists a substantial performance gap across …

[PDF][PDF] Admix-kit: an integrated toolkit and pipeline for genetic analyses of admixed populations

K Hou, S Gogarten, J Kim, X Hua, JA Dias, Q Sun… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Admixed populations, with their unique and diverse genetic backgrounds, are often
underrepresented in genetic studies. This oversight not only limits our understanding but …

Gene expression and splicing QTL analysis of blood cells in African American participants from the Jackson Heart Study

J Wen, Q Sun, L Huang, L Zhou, MF Doyle, L Ekunwe… - Genetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Most gene expression and alternative splicing quantitative trait loci (eQTL/sQTL) studies
have been biased toward European ancestry individuals. Here, we performed eQTL and …

Implementing reporting standards for polygenic risk scores for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

JL Smith, DJ Schaid, IJ Kullo - Current atherosclerosis reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review There is considerable interest in using polygenic risk scores
(PRSs) for assessing risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). A barrier to the …

Single locus theory of admixture is insufficient for the study of complex traits in admixed populations

H Lee, MH Lee, K Hou, B Pasaniuc, B Han - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Admixed populations offer valuable insights into the genetic architecture of complex traits.
Such an investigation demands a delicate theory that can handle the linkage disequilibrium …

[HTML][HTML] Cell-type specific inference from bulk RNA-sequencing data by integrating single cell reference profiles via EPIC-unmix

C Tang, Q Sun, X Zeng, X Yang, F Liu, J Zhao, Y Shen… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cell type specific (CTS) analysis is essential to reveal biological insights obscured in bulk
tissue data. However, single-cell (sc) or single-nuclei (sn) resolution data are still cost …

Retracing Human Genetic Histories and Natural Selection Using Precise Local Ancestry Inference

J Lerga-Jaso, B Novković, D Unnikrishnan… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
In an increasingly diverse world, including admixed individuals in genomic studies is
imperative for equity and portability. A crucial first step is precise local ancestry inference …