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New genetic risk score better predicts metabolic conditions
By integrating genetic findings from several of the world's largest biobanks, investigators from Mass General Brigham built metabolic a polygenic risk score (PRS) for predicting obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D), which capture multiple genetic risk factors to provide an estimate for whether a person may develop a complex medical condition and how they might fare long-term, and outperformed existing disease-prediction models and predicted downstream morbidity and clinical inte
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