Ever griped about your height? Figuring out its origins hasn't been any easier for geneticists who are turning to high-throughput, genome-wide association studies for clues. At first glance, the ...

Slager, PhD, endowed professor of lymphoma research at Mayo Clinic, discusses the use of polygenic risk scoring to assess ...

Glaucoma risk can be managed more effectively with the ability to use polygenic risk scores to identify individuals who can ...

Research indicates that dilated cardiomyopathy can be caused by the cumulative influence of potentially thousands of genes, not just one single genetic variant.

Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are a cutting-edge tool in genetics, combining information from genetic markers across the genome to estimate a person's risk of developing certain diseases, such as ...

However, many of the common diseases exhibit a more complex inheritance pattern and are associated with mutations in multiple genes (in other words, these conditions are polygenic). As a result ...