Heterogeneity in polygenic scores for common human traits

Erin B. Ware, Lauren Schmitz, Jessica D. Faul, Arianna M. Gard, Colter Mitchell, Jennifer A. Smith, Wei Zhao, David R. Weir, Sharon LR Kardia

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2017 · 142 citations · 16 references

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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on a wide range of important human traits have identified hundreds of variants in multi-cohort meta-analyses that have highly significant associations (p<5 x10-8) that replicate across studies. However, the identified genetic variants, or single nucleotide

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