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Jennifer Blanc

University of ChicagoORCID 0000-0001-7569-018XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:polygenic risk· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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GeneticsbioRxivPreprintDec 4, 2025

Quantifying the susceptibility of polygenic scores to ancestry stratification

Jennifer Blanc, Walid Mawass, Jeremy J. Berg

This paper quantifies how polygenic scores are affected by ancestry stratification using a theoretical framework and applies it to UK Biobank data.

DOI 10.64898/2025.12.04.692430

humanGWAS summary statistics

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GeneticsGeneticsPeer-reviewedApr 15, 2025

Testing for differences in polygenic scores in the presence of confounding

Jennifer Blanc, Jeremy J. Berg

This paper develops a method to protect polygenic score association tests from confounding by ancestry variation using a new approach to estimate population structure.

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humanwhole-genome sequencing

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