The NIH-funded Polygenic Risk Methods in Diverse Populations (PRIMED) Consortium is developing and evaluating methods to improve the use of polygenic risk scores (PRS) to predict disease and health outcomes in diverse ancestry populations.
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The UW will serve as the Coordinating Center for NIH's new new Polygenic Risk Score Diversity Consortium. NIH will fund consortium work through grants totaling $38 million over five years.
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Association of prostate-specific antigen levels with prostate cancer risk in a multiethnic population: Stability over time and comparison with polygenic risk score. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer in Korean women. International Journal of Epidemiology.
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