Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Contextualizing genetic risk score for disease screening and rare variant discovery

  • Dan Zhou,
  • Dongmei Yu,
  • Jeremiah M. Scharf,
  • Carol A. Mathews,
  • Lauren McGrath,
  • Edwin Cook,
  • S. Hong Lee,
  • Lea K. Davis,
  • Eric R. Gamazon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24387-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Genetic studies on complex traits have revealed a substantial role for common, small-effect polygenic burden and large-effect variants. Here, the authors investigate how these types of variation can inform disease risk stratification and prediction.