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

Thompson, Deborah J; Wells, Daniel; Selzam, Saskia; Peneva, Iliana; Moore, Rachel; Sharp, Kevin; Tarran, William A; Beard, Edward J et al. · PLoS One · 2024

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Abstract

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, using a unified pipeline for PRS evaluation. We also release a benchmarking software tool to enable like-for-like performance evaluation for different PRSs for the same disease or trait. Extensive benchmarking shows the PRSs in the UKB Release to outperform a broad set of 76 published PRSs. For many of the diseases and traits we also validate the PRS algorithms in a separate cohort (100,000 Genomes Project). The availability of PRSs for 53 traits on the same set of individuals also allows a systematic assessment of their properties, and the increased power of these PRSs increases the evidence for their potential clinical benefit.

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