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Polygenic Risk Scores for Incident Dementia in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jul 2026
Xue Diane, Blue Elizabeth E, Sofer Tamar, Hughes Timothy M, Rotter Jerome I, Post Wendy S, Fohner Alison E
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Over 75 Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia-associated variants have been identified through genome-wide association studies, but the utility of polygenic risk scores (PRS) for predicting AD and dementia in diverse and admixed populations remains unclear. We compared how PRS approaches differing in p-value thresholds, variant weights, and source ancestry perform in predicting dementia in 6338 African American,...
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