How to Use polygenic in a Sentence

polygenic

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• Those markers and the risk in the genetics become what’s called a person’s polygenic risk score.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
• Researchers who work with polygenic risk scores are concerned about their use in this context.
  — Laura Hercher, Scientific American, 12 July 2021
• Currently, polygenic risk scores aren’t routinely done in the health care setting.
  — Madeleine Streets, SELF, 13 June 2022
• For example, polygenic scores are commonly used in animal and plant breeding to improve the chances of having healthy and resilient livestock and crops.
  — Wired, 6 July 2022
• For some physical traits, such as height or body mass index, polygenic scores are associated with a sizeable fraction of the variation.
  — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2022
• In a recent paper published in Nature Medicine, scientists found that polygenic risk scores in general didn’t perform as well in people with African ancestry.
  — Angus Chen, STAT, 30 June 2022
• In the past decade, detailed knowledge about the specific loci underlying polygenic traits has begun to emerge from genome-wide association studies (GWAS).
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2013
• Of course, the researchers cannot completely rule out external influences, and pinning down the exact DNA sequences of polygenic traits such as distractibility will be difficult, if not impossible.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Wired, 6 Dec. 2021
• But chronic diseases, like heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, are polygenic, which means environment plays a much bigger role.
  — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 13 May 2021
• Each person’s genetic risk for dementia was estimated using polygenic risk, which measures your risk of contracting common chronic diseases due to your genes.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 14 Mar. 2023
• Another challenge will be developing polygenic scores that don’t increase health care disparities.
  — Jeanne Erdmann, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
• Current polygenic risk scores have limited predictive strength and reflect the shortcomings of genetic databases, which are overwhelmingly Eurocentric.
  — Laura Hercher, Scientific American, 12 July 2021
• The polygenic score that could help predict academic performance aims to assess genetic markers related to educational attainment.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2020
• Similarly, the American Heart Association has offered guidance around polygenic risk scores for cardiovascular diseases.
  — Noura Abul-Husn, STAT, 29 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024