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ReviewJournal of human genetics2021

Polygenic risk score as clinical utility in psychiatry: a clinical viewpoint.

Masashi Ikeda, Takeo Saito, Tetsufumi Kanazawa, Nakao Iwata

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Review in Journal of human genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Genetic underpinnings of YMRS and MADRS scores variations in a bipolar sample.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026
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  8. Association Between Polygenic Risk and Symptom Severity Change After Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2025
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  10. Moving toward precision and personalized treatment strategies in psychiatry.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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  14. Genome-wide association study of early-onset and late-onset postpartum depression: the IGEDEPP prospective study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Masashi IkedaDepartment of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyotake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan. ikeda-ma@fujita-hu.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6237-2449
Takeo SaitoDepartment of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyotake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan.
Tetsufumi KanazawaDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan.
Nakao IwataDepartment of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyotake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan.
Fujita Health University · JPOsaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University · JP

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) JP20dm0107097, JP20km0405201Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) JP20dm0107097, JP20km0405208MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP18K15497MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP25293253, JP16H05378MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP26293266, JP17H04251MEXT | JST | Accelerated Innovation Research Initiative Turning Top Science and Ideas into High-Impact Values (ACCEL) Private University Research Branding ProjectMinistry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan) 20GC1017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have detected many susceptible variants for common diseases, including psychiatric disorders. However, because of the small effect size of each variant, clinical utility that aims for risk prediction and/or diagnostic assistance based on the individual "variants" is difficult to use. Therefore, to improve the statistical power, polygenic risk score (PRS) has been established and applied in the GWAS as a robust analytic tool. Although PRS has potential predictive ability, because of its current "insufficient" discriminative power at the individual level for clinical use, it remains limited solely in the research area, specifically in the psychiatric field. For a better understanding of the PRS, in this review, we (1) introduce the clinical features of psychiatric disorders, (2) summarize the recent GWAS/PRS findings in the psychiatric disorders, (3) evaluate the problems of PRS, and (4) propose its possible utility to apply PRS into the psychiatric clinical setting.

Indexed as

Multifactorial InheritanceGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyGenomicsHumansMental DisordersPolymorphism, Single NucleotidePrognosisPsychiatryRisk Factors

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PMID32770057
OpenAlexW3047682010

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