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Mikkel Schierup

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Organism:chicken / avian· 1 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Research Focus:polygenic risk· 1

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Alexander GuseviD· 1 shared Benjamin Neale· 1 shared Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) study the Discovery· 1 shared Bjarni Vilhjalmsson· 1 shared Bogdan Pasaniuc· 1 shared Carlos Pato· 1 shared Daniel Chasman· 1 shared Eli StahliD· 1 shared

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2015-2015 · peak 2/yr

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Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

Bjarni Vilhjalmsson, Jian Yang, Hilary Kiyo Finucane, Alexander Gusev, Sara Lindstrom, Stephan Ripke, Giulio Genovese, Po-Ru Loh, Gaurav Bhatia, Ron Do, Tristian Hayeck, Hong-Hee Won, Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) study the Discovery, Sekar Kathiresan, , Nick J Patte

This paper introduces LDpred, a method that improves polygenic risk score accuracy by modeling linkage disequilibrium, showing increased R2 values in schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis datasets.

The American Journal of Human Genetics · Oct 1, 2015Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Strong selective sweeps on the X chromosome in the human-chimpanzee ancestor explain its low divergence

Julien Y Dutheil, Kasper Munch, Kiwoong Nam, Thomas Mailund, Mikkel Schierup

bioRxiv · May 11, 2015Evolutionary Biology