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Chating about polygenic risk scores

Polygenic risk scores (PRS) rely on the genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to predict the phenotype based on the genotype. However, the prediction accuracy suffers when GWAS from one population are used to calculate PRS within a different population, which is a problem because the majority of the GWAS are done on cohorts of European ancestry.

How The Lion King turned me into a scientist

How "The Lion King" turned me into a scientistRecently, my therapist asked me to do some homework. She asked me to reflect on the question "what did I want to be when I grew up?