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Genetics·Nature GeneticsPeer-reviewed·Mar 29, 2019
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Current clinical use of polygenic scores will risk exacerbating health disparities
Alicia R. Martin, Masahiro Kanai, Yoichiro Kamatani…+2 more authors·Mark J. Daly
Eurocentric GWAS make polygenic scores less accurate in non-Europeans (mean 4.9-fold lower for UK Biobank Africans); equal-sized ancestry-matched GWAS predict better in Japanese and British individuals.
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