Performance of polygenic risk scores for cancer prediction in a racially diverse academic biobank
Louise L. Wang, Heena Desai, Shefali S. Verma, Anh N. Le, Ryan M. Hausler, Anurag Verma, Renae Judy, Abigail G. Doucette, Peter Edward Gabriel, Goncalo Abecasis, Xiaodong Bai, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Aris Baras, Andrew Blumenfeld, Boris Boutkov, , Kara N. Maxwell
This study evaluates polygenic risk scores (PRS) for cancer prediction in a racially diverse biobank, finding moderate improvements in discriminatory accuracy for European ancestry but limited gains for African ancestry.
Genetics in Medicine · Nov 30, 2021Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine