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Neuropsychiatric polygenic scores are weak predictors of professional categories.
Nature human behaviour - 1 Mar 2025
Voloudakis Georgios, Therrien Karen, Tomasi Simone, Rajagopal Veera M, Choi Shing Wan, Demontis Ditte, Fullard John F, Børglum Anders D, O'Reilly Paul F, Hoffman Gabriel E, Roussos Panos
Abstract excerpt
Polygenic scores (PGS) enable the exploration of pleiotropic effects and genomic dissection of complex traits. Here, in 421,889 individuals with European ancestry from the Million Veteran Program and UK Biobank, we examine how PGS of 17 neuropsychiatric traits are related to membership in 22 broad professional categories. Overall, we find statistically significant but weak (the highest odds ratio is 1.1 per PGS...
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