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Incorporating functional annotation with bilevel continuous shrinkage for polygenic risk prediction
Zhuang Y, Kim N, Fritsche L, Mukherjee B, Lee S. Incorporating functional annotation with bilevel continuous shrinkage for polygenic risk prediction. BMC Bioinformatics 2024, 25: 65. PMID: 38336614, PMCID: PMC11323637, DOI: 10.1186/s12859-024-05664-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPredictive performance of polygenic risk scoresFunctional annotationGenetic architecturePerformance of polygenic risk scoresPRS-CSAnnotation informationPolygenic risk predictionGenetic risk predictionPolygenic risk scoresFunctional annotation informationKyoto Encyclopedia of GenesRisk predictionProportion of variantsEncyclopedia of GenesGenomes (KEGGSource of annotationTrait heritabilityAnnotation groupsPathway informationQuantitative traitsKyoto EncyclopediaFunctional categoriesBackgroundGenetic variantsHeritable contributionReal world data sources
2019
Exploring various polygenic risk scores for skin cancer in the phenomes of the Michigan genomics initiative and the UK Biobank with a visual catalog: PRSWeb
Fritsche L, Beesley L, VandeHaar P, Peng R, Salvatore M, Zawistowski M, Taliun S, Das S, LeFaive J, Kaleba E, Klumpner T, Moser S, Blanc V, Brummett C, Kheterpal S, Abecasis G, Gruber S, Mukherjee B. Exploring various polygenic risk scores for skin cancer in the phenomes of the Michigan genomics initiative and the UK Biobank with a visual catalog: PRSWeb. PLOS Genetics 2019, 15: e1008202. PMID: 31194742, PMCID: PMC6592565, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008202.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMichigan Genomics InitiativeElectronic health recordsPolygenic risk scoresSkin cancer subtypesPheWAS resultsUK BiobankElectronic health record dataLongitudinal biorepository effortPhenome-wide association studyRisk scoreHealth record dataUK Biobank dataPrediction of disease riskPublicly-available sourcesHealth recordsGenetic architectureBiobank dataMichigan MedicineRecord dataSecondary phenotypesDisease riskVisual catalogAssociation studiesGenome InitiativePheWAS