Genetic and environmental variation impact transferability of polygenic risk scores.

Araújo, Daniel S; Wheeler, Heather E · Cell Rep Med · 2022

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Abstract

Even when polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are trained in African ancestral populations, Kamiza and colleagues showed that genetic and environmental variation within sub-Saharan African populations impacts prediction performance, highlighting the challenges of clinical implementation of PRSs for risk assessment.

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