Reposted by April Kim
Really excited to share our new PRS method, developed with @aprilkim.bsky.social and @alexisbattle.bsky.social ! Our approach is to use a lot of recently developed functional annotations to better estimate the weights of the SNPs.
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Polygenic prediction of phenotypes with a neural empirical Bayes approach
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate the expected value of a phenotype based on individual genotypes. Although statistical approaches for calculating PRS have advanced considerably in recent years, fe...