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Genetic liability for substance use associated with medical comorbidities in electronic health records of African- and European-ancestry individuals.
Addiction biology - 1 Jan 2022
Hartwell Emily E, Merikangas Alison K, Verma Shefali S, Ritchie Marylyn D, Kranzler Henry R, Kember Rachel L
Abstract excerpt
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) represent an individual's summed genetic risk for a trait and can serve as biomarkers for disease. Less is known about the utility of PRS as a means to quantify genetic risk for substance use disorders (SUDs) than for many other traits. Nonetheless, the growth of large, electronic health record-based biobanks makes it possible to evaluate the association of SUD PRS with other traits....
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