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Validity of polygenic risk scores: are we measuring what we think we are?

Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have become the standard for quantifying genetic liability in the prediction of disease risks. PRSs are generally constructed as weighted sum scores of risk alleles using effect sizes from genome-wide association studies as their weights. The construction of PRSs is bein...

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Autor principal: Janssens, A Cecile J W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7013150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31504522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddz205