polygenic risk score

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0030082

An estimate of an individual’s genetic risk for some traits, obtained by aggregating and quantifying the effect of many common variants in the genome (usually defined as minor allele frequency ≥1%), each of which can have a small effect on a person’s genetic risk for a given disease or condition. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7059-6378 ]

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paola

definition

An estimate of an individual’s genetic risk for some traits, obtained by aggregating and quantifying the effect of many common variants in the genome (usually defined as minor allele frequency ≥1%), each of which can have a small effect on a person’s genetic risk for a given disease or condition.

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PRS, genetic risk score, polygenic score

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