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Dissecting the clinical relevance of polygenic risk score for obesity-a cross-sectional, longitudinal analysis.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Sept 2022
Choe Eun Kyung, Shivakumar Manu, Lee Seung Mi, Verma Anurag, Kim Dokyoon
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Obesity is a global pandemic disease whose prevalence is increasing worldwide. The clinical relevance of a polygenic risk score (PRS) for obesity has not been fully elucidated in Asian populations. METHOD: We utilized a comprehensive health check-up database from the Korean population in conjunction with genotyping to generate PRS for BMI (PRS-BMI). We conducted a phenome-wide association (PheWAS)...
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