Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Identifying individuals with high risk of Alzheimer’s disease using polygenic risk scores

  • Ganna Leonenko,
  • Emily Baker,
  • Joshua Stevenson-Hoare,
  • Annerieke Sierksma,
  • Mark Fiers,
  • Julie Williams,
  • Bart de Strooper,
  • Valentina Escott-Price

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24082-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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While polygenic risk scores have been shown to be correlated with disease risk, there is little agreement on how the score should be calculated. Here the authors investigate risk scores for Alzheimer’s disease, finding that the most effective approach includes an APOE score and a polygenic score excluding APOE.