• Transferability of genetic risk scores in African populations 

      Kamiza, Abram B; Toure, Sounkou M.; Vujkovic, Marijana; Machipisa, Tafadzwa; Soremekun, Opeyemi S.; Kintu, Christopher; Corpas, Manuel ; Pirie, Fraser; Young, Elizabeth; Gill, Dipender; Sandhu, Manjinder S.; Kaleebu, Pontiano; Nyirenda, Moffat; Motala, Ayesha A.; Chikowore, Tinashe; Fatumo, Segun (Nature Medicine, 2022)
      A new study reveals that polygenic scores for lipid traits derived from data of African American individuals have high predictive value in a South African Zulu cohort but are poor predictors in a cohort from Uganda, further ...