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UCLA Health receives $4.8M NIH grant to improve genetic estimates of disease risk in diverse populations

June 16, 2021 sarah JonasAnnouncement

UCLA Health will receive a $4.8 million grant from The National Institutes of Health to develop methods that will improve genetic risk estimates – polygenic risk scores – for specific diseases in people from diverse populations and mixed ancestries.

Polygenic risk score improves psychosis risk prediction

November 12, 2019 sarah JonasResearch Results

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that that using a polygenic risk score (PRS) based on data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) improves psychosis risk prediction in persons meeting clinical high-risk criteria.