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Advances and Applications of Polygenic Scores for Coronary Artery Disease.
Annual review of medicine - 27 Jan 2023
Patel Aniruddh P, Khera Amit V
Abstract excerpt
Polygenic scores quantify inherited risk by integrating information from many common sites of DNA variation into a single number. Rapid increases in the scale of genetic association studies and new statistical algorithms have enabled development of polygenic scores that meaningfully measure-as early as birth-risk of coronary artery disease. These newer-generation polygenic scores identify up to 8% of the...
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