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Mapping the relative accuracy of cross-ancestry prediction.
Nature communications - 2 Dec 2024
Lupi Alexa S, Vazquez Ana I, de Los Campos Gustavo
Abstract excerpt
The overwhelming majority of participants in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have European (EUR) ancestry, and polygenic scores (PGS) derived from EURs often perform poorly in non-EURs. Previous studies suggest that between-ancestry differences in allele frequencies and linkage disequilibrium are significant contributors to the poor portability of PGS in cross-ancestry prediction. We hypothesize that the...
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