Evaluating performance and agreement of coronary heart disease polygenic risk scores

JAMA

2024-11-16

(Press-News.org) About The Study: Coronary heart disease polygenic risk scores that performed similarly at the population level demonstrated highly variable individual-level estimates of risk. Recognizing that coronary heart disease polygenic risk scores may generate incongruent individual-level risk estimates, effective clinical implementation will require refined statistical methods to quantify uncertainty and new strategies to communicate this uncertainty to patients and clinicians.

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Scott M. Damrauer, MD, email Scott.Damrauer@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

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(doi:10.1001/jama.2024.23784)

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