The Polygenic Score Catalog As an Open Database for Reproducibility and Systematic Evaluation

Overview

Journal Nat Genet

Specialty Genetics

Date 2021 Mar 11

PMID 33692568

Citations 265

Authors

Samuel A Lambert

Laurent Gil

Simon Jupp

Scott C Ritchie

Yu Xu

Annalisa Buniello

Aoife McMahon

Gad Abraham

Michael Chapman

Helen Parkinson

John Danesh

Jacqueline A L MacArthur

Michael Inouye

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