Risk score · Metabolism & body
Height Polygenic Score
Your genetic tendency to be taller or shorter. Height is one of the most heritable human traits, shaped by thousands of variants.
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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How the score works
A polygenic score for Height
Genetic variants
- 3,290
Method
- GWAS-significant (lead and secondary) variants
Built from studies of
- European 66%, Not reported 34%
Evaluated in
- European 91%, Greater Middle Eastern 9%
Published
Xie T et al. (2020). Genetic Risk Scores for Complex Disease Traits in Youth. Circ Genom Precis Med.
References
- 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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