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Ethnicity-specific polygenic risk score for predicting coronary heart disease mortality in Malaysian patients with type 2 diabetes.
The Medical journal of Malaysia - 1 Jul 2026
Zarkasi K A, Abdul Murad N A, Abdullah N, Mhd Yusuf N A, Abd Jalal N, Ismail N, Kamaruddin M A, Ahmad N, Jamal R
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INTRODUCTION: Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are used to aggregate single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) effects across the genome to estimate an individual's risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). However, most PRS models were developed mainly in Caucasian populations, limiting their applicability to Malaysia's diverse populations. This study aimed to develop a PRS to predict CHD mortality among individuals with...
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