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From Polygenic Scores to Precision Medicine in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 1 Jan 2020
Harrison Judith R, Mistry Sumit, Muskett Natalie, Escott-Price Valentina
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BACKGROUND: Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is highly heritable. The effect of many common genetic variants, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), confer risk. Variants are clustered in areas of biology, notably immunity and inflammation, cholesterol metabolism, endocytosis, and ubiquitination. Polygenic scores (PRS), which weight the sum of an individual's risk alleles, have been used to draw inferences...
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