Polygenic Health Index, General Health, and Pleiotropy: Sibling Analysis and Disease Risk Reduction

Abstract We construct a polygenic health index as a weighted sum of polygenic risk scores for 20 major disease conditions, including, e.g., coronary artery disease, type 1 and 2 diabetes, schizophrenia, etc. Individual weights are determined by population-level estimates of impact on life expectancy...

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Main Authors: Erik Widen, Louis Lello, Timothy G. Raben, Laurent C. A. M. Tellier, Stephen D. H. Hsu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22637-8