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Polygenic risk scores: pleiotropy and the effect of environment.
GeroScience - 1 Dec 2020
Loika Yury, Irincheeva Irina, Culminskaya Irina, Nazarian Alireza, Kulminski Alexander M
Abstract excerpt
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) discriminate trait risks better than single genetic markers because they aggregate the effects of risk alleles from multiple genetic loci. Constructing pleiotropic PRSs and understanding heterogeneity, and the replication of PRS-trait associations can strengthen its applications. By using variational Bayesian multivariate high-dimensional regression, we constructed pleiotropic PRSs...
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