An atlas of polygenic risk score associations to highlight putative causal relationships across the human phenome

The age of large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has provided us with an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate the genetic liability of complex disease using polygenic risk scores (PRS). In this study, we have analysed 162 PRS (p<5×10−05) derived from GWAS and 551 heritable trait...

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Main Authors: Tom G Richardson, Sean Harrison, Gibran Hemani, George Davey Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-03-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/43657