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Loneliness Polygenic Score
Whether your genetics lean towards feeling lonely more often.
A risk score adds up many common variants, each with a small effect, into an estimate of genetic predisposition. It is not a diagnosis.
Updated 16 October 2026
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A polygenic score for Loneliness
Genetic variants
- 660
Method
- snpnet
Developed in
- European 100%
Evaluated in
- European 50%, African 17%, East Asian 17%, South Asian 17%
Published
Tanigawa Y et al. (2022). Significant sparse polygenic risk scores across 813 traits in UK Biobank. PLoS Genet.
References
- 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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