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Statistical uncertainty explains the poor agreement in polygenic scoring for type 2 diabetes

2026-02-27 genetic and genomic medicine Title + abstract only
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Polygenic scores (PGS) have emerged as an important tool for genetic risk prediction in medicine to identify individuals at high-risk for disease. A major limitation in their implementation is the apparent disagreement among scores for the same individual decreasing their interpretability and utility in clinical settings. Here we show that the poor agreement across PGSes for type 2 diabetes (T2D) is fully explained by statistical uncertainty in PGS-based prediction; individual-level uncertainty ...

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