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Risk score · Mental health & wellbeing

Happiness Polygenic Score

Whether your genetics lean towards reporting greater or lesser general happiness.

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 General happiness

Genetic variants

10,628

Method

Penalized regression (bigstatsr)

Developed in

European 100%

Evaluated in

European 38%, African 25%, East Asian 13%, Greater Middle Eastern 13%, South Asian 13%

Published

Privé F et al. (2022). Portability of 245 polygenic scores when derived from the UK Biobank and applied to 9 ancestry groups from the same cohort Am J Hum Genet.

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References

  1. Bycroft C, Freeman C, Petkova D, Band G, Elliott LT, Sharp K, 2018. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data. Nature

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One kit, sent to your home. Your entire genome sequenced at the clinical standard used for diagnostic decisions. Physician-ready reports delivered to your Genome Manager in 6–8 weeks — permanent and updated as science advances.

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