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Leveraging effect size distributions to improve polygenic risk scores derived from summary statistics of genome-wide association studies

Genetic risk prediction is an important problem in human genetics, and accurate prediction can facilitate disease prevention and treatment. Calculating polygenic risk score (PRS) has become widely used due to its simplicity and effectiveness, where only summary statistics from genome-wide associatio...

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Autores principales: Song, Shuang, Jiang, Wei, Hou, Lin, Zhao, Hongyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7039528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32045423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007565