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Predictive accuracy of combined genetic and environmental risk scores.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Feb 2018
Dudbridge Frank, Pashayan Nora, Yang Jian
Abstract excerpt
The substantial heritability of most complex diseases suggests that genetic data could provide useful risk prediction. To date the performance of genetic risk scores has fallen short of the potential implied by heritability, but this can be explained by insufficient sample sizes for estimating highly polygenic models. When risk predictors already exist based on environment or lifestyle, two key questions are to...
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