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Could Polygenic Risk Scores Be Useful in Psychiatry?: A Review.
JAMA psychiatry - 1 Feb 2021
Murray Graham K, Lin Tian, Austin Jehannine, McGrath John J, Hickie Ian B, Wray Naomi R
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Importance: Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are predictors of the genetic susceptibility to diseases, calculated for individuals as weighted counts of thousands of risk variants in which the risk variants and their weights have been identified in genome-wide association studies. Polygenic risk scores show promise in aiding clinical decision-making in many areas of medical practice. This review evaluates the potential...
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