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Mashup Score: 103Leveraging genetic ancestry continuum information to interpolate PRS for admixed populations - 4 day(s) ago
Calculating optimal polygenic risk scores (PRS) across diverse ancestries, particularly in admixed populations, is necessary to enable equitable genetic research and clinical translation. However, the relatively low representation of admixed populations in both discovery and fine-tuning individual-level datasets limits PRS development for admixed populations. Under the assumption that the most informative PRS weight for a homogeneous sample, which can be approximated by a data point in the ancestry continuum space, varies linearly in that space, we introduce a Genetic Distance-assisted PRS Combination Pipeline for Diverse Genetic Ancestries (DiscoDivas) to interpolate a harmonized PRS for diverse, especially admixed, ancestries, leveraging multiple PRS weights fine-tuned within single-ancestry samples and the genetic ancestry continuum information. DiscoDivas treats ancestry as a continuous variable and does not require shifting between different models when calculating PRS for differe
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Mashup Score: 101Leveraging genetic ancestry continuum information to interpolate PRS for admixed populations - 7 day(s) ago
Calculating optimal polygenic risk scores (PRS) across diverse ancestries, particularly in admixed populations, is necessary to enable equitable genetic research and clinical translation. However, the relatively low representation of admixed populations in both discovery and fine-tuning individual-level datasets limits PRS development for admixed populations. Under the assumption that the most informative PRS weight for a homogeneous sample, which can be approximated by a data point in the ancestry continuum space, varies linearly in that space, we introduce a Genetic Distance-assisted PRS Combination Pipeline for Diverse Genetic Ancestries (DiscoDivas) to interpolate a harmonized PRS for diverse, especially admixed, ancestries, leveraging multiple PRS weights fine-tuned within single-ancestry samples and the genetic ancestry continuum information. DiscoDivas treats ancestry as a continuous variable and does not require shifting between different models when calculating PRS for differe
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Mashup Score: 11Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer - 10 day(s) ago
Broad and Mass General researcher Alexandra-Chloé Villani and Mass General oncologist Kerry Reynolds describe their pioneering effort to better understand, diagnose, and manage dangerous complications from cancer immunotherapy.
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Mashup Score: 10Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer - 11 day(s) ago
Broad and Mass General researcher Alexandra-Chloé Villani and Mass General oncologist Kerry Reynolds describe their pioneering effort to better understand, diagnose, and manage dangerous complications from cancer immunotherapy.
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Mashup Score: 3Disease drivers in aortic stenosis vs atherosclerosis - 11 day(s) ago
Aortic stenosis (AS) due to fibrosis and calcification of the aortic valve is a hazardous component of cardiovascular disease burden—after developing symptomatic AS, patients survive for an average of less than 2 years without treatment. Alongside the shared presence of many traditional…
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Mashup Score: 72
This genomewide association study examined specific genetic variants, pathways, and tissues associated with aortic stenosis independent of coronary artery disease in a meta-analysis of participants from 3 European cohorts.
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Many patients with calcific aortic stenosis surprisingly do not have notable coronary artery disease. Delighted to contribute to this work led by @T_Trenkwalder, along with @AeronSmallMD @mghecho, identifying non-CAD-related AS genetic factors https://t.co/BI5Xw6aiPA @JAMACardio https://t.co/LHpodGi4S6
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Mashup Score: 60Genomic, phenomic, and geographic associations of leukocyte telomere length in the United States - 13 day(s) ago
Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with multiple conditions, including cardiovascular diseases and neoplasms, yet their differential associations across diverse individuals are largely unknown. We estimated LTL from blood-derived whole genome sequences in the All of Us Research Program (n=242,494) with diverse backgrounds across the United States. LTL was associated with lifestyle, socioeconomic status, biomarkers, cardiometabolic diseases, and neoplasms with heterogeneity across genetic ancestries and sexes. Geographical analysis revealed that significantly longer LTL clustered in the West Coast and Central Midwest, while significantly shorter LTL clustered in the Southeast in the United States, accounting for age, sex, and genetic ancestry. Genome-wide association study and meta-analysis with the UK Biobank (n=679,972) found 234 non-overlapping loci, of which 36 were novel. We identified 4 novel loci unique to non-European-like populations and one specific to females. Rare
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Very excited to share our preprint led by @NakaoTetsushi @skoyamamd examining the determinants & clinical outcomes of leukocyte telomere length in the U.S. with stark geographic differences! https://t.co/z62sFbCrRE @medrxivpreprint Hear more about this from @NakaoTetsushi at… https://t.co/wNJgAncew0 https://t.co/egvnYld4HR https://t.co/yr8dnQ0qsT
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Mashup Score: 3Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy, long in shortage, are now listed as available by FDA - 19 day(s) ago
The FDA says all doses of Novo Nordisk’s drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, long in shortage, are now available.
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Mashup Score: 43Prevalence of Coronary Atherosclerosis in Female Masters Endurance Athletes | Circulation - 20 day(s) ago
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article. Merghani A, Maestrini V, Rosmini S, Cox AT, Dhutia H, Bastiaenan R, David S, Yeo TJ, Narain R, Malhotra A, et al. Prevalence of subclinical coronary artery disease in masters endurance athletes with a low atherosclerotic risk profile. Circulation. 2017;136:126–137. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.026964 Aengevaeren VL, Mosterd A, Bakker EA, Braber TL, Nathoe HM, Sharma S, Thompson PD, Velthuis BK, Eijsvogels TMH. Exercise volume
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Mashup Score: 14Summer Program in Clinical Effectiveness 2025 - 20 day(s) ago
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Current polygenic risk scores require binning of ancestry groups but we know ancestry is a continuum. Our study led by @Yunfeng_Ruan introduces DiscoDivas, a new generalizable PRS framework across the ancestry spectrum https://t.co/MCduxNKpSg @medrxivpreprint @PRSdiversity https://t.co/ct3Uq1iRnz