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The relationship between 11 different polygenic longevity scores, parental lifespan, and disease diagnosis in the UK Biobank.
GeroScience - 1 Aug 2024
Don Janith, Schork Andrew J, Glusman Gwênlyn, Rappaport Noa, Cummings Steve R, Duggan David, Raju Anish, Hellberg Kajsa-Lotta Georgii, Gunn Sophia, Monti Stefano, Perls Thomas, Lapidus Jodi, Goetz Laura H, Sebastiani Paola, Schork Nicholas J
Abstract excerpt
Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) strongly suggest that most traits and diseases have a polygenic component. This observation has motivated the development of disease-specific "polygenic scores (PGS)" that are weighted sums of the effects of disease-associated variants identified from GWAS that correlate with an individual's likelihood of expressing a specific phenotype. Although most GWAS have...
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