Abstract:BackgroundPolygenic risk scores (PRSs) are personalized assessments based on the cumulative effect of a larger number of genetic variants, and the PRS has been utilized to estimate the risk of a disease or disease-related trait for an individual. However, the capability of PRS can be interfered with by multiple factors spanning from the generating genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary to the PRS calculation. In this study, based on a large cohort of 2,781 ulcerative colitis (UC) cases and 2,876 healthy … Show more
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