Past and upcoming talks

Ancestry Matters: why do polygenic risk scores remain limited to a few?

What drives the reduced prediction accuracy of polygenic scores in non-European individuals?

Low transferability of height polygenic risk scores in admixed ancestry populations

Polygenic risk scores (PRS) summarize the results of GWAS into a single number that can predict quantitative phenotype or disease risk. One barrier to the use of PRS in clinical practice is that the majority of GWAS come from cohorts of European …

Investigating the lack of transferability of polygenic risk scores in cohorts with admixed ancestry

Polygenic risk scores (PRS) can be used to summarize the results of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) into a single number representing the risk of disease. For some traits (for example, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer) PRS allows us to …

Polygenic risk scores perform poorly across populations

The vast majority of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are performed in cohorts of European ancestry. Systematic differences in polygenic risk scores (PRS) between European and non-European ancestry populations are believed to be largely …