Common DNA Variants Accurately Rank an Individual of Extreme Height

Polygenic scores (or genetic risk scores) quantify the aggregate of small effects from many common genetic loci that have been associated with a trait through genome-wide association. Polygenic scores were first used successfully in schizophrenia and have since been applied to multiple phenotypes in...

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Published in:International Journal of Genomics
Main Authors: Corinne E. Sexton, Mark T. W. Ebbert, Ryan H. Miller, Meganne Ferrel, Jo Ann T. Tschanz, Christopher D. Corcoran, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Perry G. Ridge, John S. K. Kauwe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5121540