Quantitative Genetic Scoring, or how to put a number on an arbitrary genetic region
Gido Schoenmacker, Priscilla Vlaming, Jonatan Pallesen, MY Pikulina, AH Ghamarian, Ditte Demontis, Anders Dupont Børglum, Tessel E. Galesloot, Geert Poelmans, Barbara Franke, Tom Claassen, Tom Heskes, Jan K. Buitelaar, Alejandro Arias Vásquez
This paper introduces quantitative genetic scoring (QGS) to create quantitative genetic variables from arbitrary regions, showing it can reduce genetic data by >98% while explaining phenotypic variance across different granularities.
bioRxiv · Dec 15, 2020 · PreprintBioinformatics