Heritability & individual differences › Polygenic-score portability
Term

Polygenic-score portability

The degree to which predictive performance of a polygenic score transfers to populations differing in ancestry or other relevant characteristics.

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Context

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The project corpus supplies 1 supporting reference for this concept or its surrounding literature. The concise definition above is wiki-authored; consult the cited source directly for study design, population, estimates, and limitations. [1]

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References

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    Polygenic score portability across populations