Nature Communications (May 2022)

The potential of polygenic scores to improve cost and efficiency of clinical trials

  • Akl C. Fahed,
  • Anthony A. Philippakis,
  • Amit V. Khera

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30675-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Polygenic scores can identify individuals with high disease risk based on inborn DNA variation. We explore their potential to enrich clinical trials by identifying individuals based on higher risk of disease (‘prognostic enrichment’), or increased probability of benefit (‘predictive enrichment’).