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Risk score · Metabolism & body

BMI Polygenic Score

Your genetic tendency towards a higher or lower body mass index (BMI). Genetics shapes appetite and weight, alongside diet and activity.

A risk score adds up many common variants, each with a small effect, into an estimate of genetic predisposition. It is not a diagnosis.

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A polygenic score for Body mass index (BMI)

Genetic variants

941

Method

GWAS-significant (lead and secondary) variants

Built from studies of

European 67%, Not reported 33%

Evaluated in

European 100%

Published

Xie T et al. (2020). Genetic Risk Scores for Complex Disease Traits in Youth. Circ Genom Precis Med.

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References

  1. Yengo L, Sidorenko J, Kemper KE, Zheng Z, Wood AR, Weedon MN, 2018. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ∼700000 individuals of European ancestry. Hum Mol Genet

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