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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025

DiscoDivas: Leveraging genetic ancestry continuum information to interpolate PRS for admixed populations.

Yunfeng Ruan, Rohan Bhukar, Aniruddh Patel, Satoshi Koyama, Leland Hull, Buu Truong, So Mi Cho, Whitney Hornsby, Haoyu Zhang, Nilanjan Chatterjee and 1 more

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11 authors.

Yunfeng RuanProgram in Medical and Population, Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3213-8309
Rohan BhukarProgram in Medical and Population, Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Aniruddh PatelProgram in Medical and Population, Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Satoshi KoyamaProgram in Medical and Population, Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9286-0360
Leland HullDivision of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Buu TruongProgram in Medical and Population, Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0043-0812
So Mi ChoProgram in Medical and Population, Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Whitney HornsbyProgram in Medical and Population, Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Haoyu ZhangDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Nilanjan ChatterjeeDepartment of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Pradeep NatarajanProgram in Medical and Population, Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8402-7435

Funding

Using genetic variation to study biology of blood lipids & coronary heart diseaseR01HL127564 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Pradeep Natarajan, Gina Marie Peloso · 2015 to 2026
$7.3M
Enabling improved applicability and transferability of polygenic scores across populationsU01HG011719 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Alicia Martin · 2021 to 2026
$5.5M
Robust Methods for Polygenic Analysis to Inform Disease Etiology and Enhance Risk PredictionR01HG010480 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CHATTERJEE, NILANJAN · 2019 to 2023
$2.8M
Multifactoral breast cancer risk prediction accounting for ethnic and tumor diversityU01CA249866 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CHATTERJEE, NILANJAN · 2020 to 2023
$2.3M
Statistical Methods for Data Integration and Applications to Genome-wide Association StudiesR01HG013137 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Nilanjan Chatterjee · 2024 to 2026
$843k
Advancing the clinical actionability of polygenic scores for coronary artery diseaseK08HL168238 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Aniruddh Patel · 2024 to 2026
$511k
Integration of novel contextual and genomic blood pressure measures to enhance cardiovascular disease prediction and management in young adultsK99HL177340 · NHLBI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI So Mi Cho · 2025 to 2026
$331k
Statistical Methods for Data Integration and Applications to Genome-wide Association StudiesR56HG013137 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CHATTERJEE, NILANJAN · 2023 to 2023
$290k
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Abstract

The relatively low representation of admixed populations in both discovery and fine-tuning individual-level datasets limits polygenic risk score (PRS) development and equitable clinical translation for admixed populations. Under the assumption that the most informative PRS model for a genetically homogeneous sample varies linearly in an ancestry continuum space, we introduce a Genetic

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admixed populationgenetic ancestry continuumgenetic distancepolygenic risk score (PRS)principal component analysis (PCA)PRS harmonization

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