Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations

L Kachuri, N Chatterjee, J Hirbo, DJ Schaid… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) summarize the genetic predisposition of a complex human trait
or disease and may become a valuable tool for advancing precision medicine. However …

Challenges and opportunities for develo** more generalizable polygenic risk scores

Y Wang, K Tsuo, M Kanai, BM Neale… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate an individual's genetic likelihood of complex traits and
diseases by aggregating information across multiple genetic variants identified from genome …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine map**, gene prioritization and causal inference

X Meng, G Navoly, O Giannakopoulou, DF Levey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Most genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of major depression (MD) have been
conducted in samples of European ancestry. Here we report a multi-ancestry GWAS of MD …

A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes

S Sakaue, M Kanai, Y Tanigawa, J Karjalainen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Current genome-wide association studies do not yet capture sufficient diversity in
populations and scope of phenotypes. To expand an atlas of genetic associations in non …

Causal effects on complex traits are similar for common variants across segments of different continental ancestries within admixed individuals

K Hou, Y Ding, Z Xu, Y Wu, A Bhattacharya, R Mester… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Individuals of admixed ancestries (for example, African Americans) inherit a mosaic of
ancestry segments (local ancestry) originating from multiple continental ancestral …

Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease

W Zhou, M Kanai, KHH Wu, H Rasheed, K Tsuo… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Biobanks facilitate genome-wide association studies (GWASs), which have mapped
genomic loci across a range of human diseases and traits. However, most biobanks are …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses identify novel genetic mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis

K Ishigaki, S Sakaue, C Terao, Y Luo, K Sonehara… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a highly heritable complex disease with unknown etiology. Multi-
ancestry genetic research of RA promises to improve power to detect genetic signals, fine …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of cannabis use disorder yields insight into disease biology and public health implications

DF Levey, M Galimberti, JD Deak, FR Wendt… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
As recreational use of cannabis is being decriminalized in many places and medical use
widely sanctioned, there are growing concerns about increases in cannabis use disorder …

The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

SE Graham, SL Clarke, KHH Wu, S Kanoni, GJM Zajac… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Increased blood lipid levels are heritable risk factors of cardiovascular disease with varied
prevalence worldwide owing to different dietary patterns and medication use. Despite …

Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations

Y Ruan, YF Lin, YCA Feng, CY Chen, M Lam, Z Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have attenuated cross-population predictive performance. As
existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been conducted predominantly in …