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Predictive Capabilities of Polygenic Scores in an East-Asian Population-based Cohort: The Singapore Chinese Health Study

2025-02-14 public and global health Title + abstract only
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BackgroundExisting polygenic scores (PGS) are derived primarily from studies performed in European populations. It is still unclear how these perform in improving risk predictions in East-Asians. MethodsWe generated 2,173 PGSs from 519 traits and assessed their associations with 58 baseline phenotypes in the Singapore Chinese Health Study (SCHS), a prospective cohort of 23,622 middle-aged and older Chinese residing in Singapore. We used linear regression to evaluate PGS performances for quantit...

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