Electronic health records and polygenic risk scores for predicting disease risk

R Li, Y Chen, MD Ritchie, JH Moore - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Accurate prediction of disease risk based on the genetic make-up of an individual is
essential for effective prevention and personalized treatment. Nevertheless, to date …

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

ACJW Janssens - Human molecular genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Revisiting the genome-wide significance threshold for common variant GWAS

Z Chen, M Boehnke, X Wen, B Mukherjee - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Over the last decade, GWAS meta-analyses have used a strict P-value threshold of 5× 10− 8
to classify associations as significant. Here, we use our current understanding of frequently …

Pan-cancer analysis demonstrates that integrating polygenic risk scores with modifiable risk factors improves risk prediction

L Kachuri, RE Graff, K Smith-Byrne, TJ Meyers… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer risk is determined by a complex interplay of environmental and heritable factors.
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) provide a personalized genetic susceptibility profile that may be …

Disease risk scores for skin cancers

P Fontanillas, B Alipanahi, NA Furlotte… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We trained and validated risk prediction models for the three major types of skin cancer—
basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and melanoma—on a cross …

Cancer PRSweb: an online repository with polygenic risk scores for major cancer traits and their evaluation in two independent biobanks

LG Fritsche, S Patil, LJ Beesley, P VandeHaar… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
To facilitate scientific collaboration on polygenic risk scores (PRSs) research, we created an
extensive PRS online repository for 35 common cancer traits integrating freely available …

Accurate and scalable construction of polygenic scores in large biobank data sets

S Yang, X Zhou - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
Accurate construction of polygenic scores (PGS) can enable early diagnosis of diseases and
facilitate the development of personalized medicine. Accurate PGS construction requires …

Statistical genetics and polygenic risk score for precision medicine

T Konuma, Y Okada - Inflammation and regeneration, 2021 - Springer
The prediction of disease risks is an essential part of personalized medicine, which includes
early disease detection, prevention, and intervention. The polygenic risk score (PRS) has …

Constructing germline research cohorts from the discarded reads of clinical tumor sequences

A Gusev, S Groha, K Taraszka, YR Semenov… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Hundreds of thousands of cancer patients have had targeted (panel) tumor
sequencing to identify clinically meaningful mutations. In addition to improving patient …

Polygenic risk and chemotherapy-related subsequent malignancies in childhood cancer survivors: a Childhood Cancer Survivor Study and St Jude Lifetime Cohort …

C Im, N Sharafeldin, Y Yuan, Z Wang… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Chemotherapeutic exposures are associated with subsequent malignant
neoplasm (SMN) risk. The role of genetic susceptibility in chemotherapy-related SMNs …