omics

Polygenic Risk Score Prediction

Contributors

Who is this for? 

Researchers; no programming experience is needed.

How do you parallelize? 

  • PRS jobs distributed across nodes (batch)
  • Sample and variant parallel

Tool category: Genetic Analysis Pipeline

Function: Polygenic Risk Scores

Tool type: Omics workflow

Key capabilities:

  • Turnkey calculation of Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS).
  • Novel method that combines shrinkage + ancestry-correction evolution of Cutler et al 2024

Potential use cases:

  • Research studies to explain heritability of disease
  • Prediction of risk in new populations: e.g., calculate risk in African population using European GWAS
  • Identify cases enriched for rare variant disease burden