Risk score · Mental health & wellbeing
PTSD Polygenic Score
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop after a traumatic event. Genetics influences how likely it is to develop after trauma.
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 Post-traumatic stress disorder
Genetic variants
- 53,705
Method
- PRSice 2.0
Built from studies of
- European 89%, African 11%
Evaluated in
- Hispanic or Latin American 100%
Published
Bugiga AVG et al. (2024). The interaction between polygenic risk score and trauma affects the likelihood of post-traumatic stress disorder in female victims of sexual assault. Braz J Psychiatry.
References
- Nievergelt CM, Maihofer AX, Klengel T, Atkinson EG, Chen CY, Choi KW, 2019. International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci. Nat Commun
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