Peer-Reviewed Publication
medRxiv2026June 15, 2026Journal Article

Non-Parametric Ancestry Adjustment for Polygenic Scores.

Daniel Mas Montserrat1, Míriam Barrabés1, Carlos D Bustamante1, Alexander G Ioannidis2
1Galatea Bio, Miami, FL.
2Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Abstract

Modern polygenic risk scores (PRS) exhibit shifts correlated with ancestry, leading to erroneous predictions for non-European individuals when models are trained on predominantly European cohorts. Such shifts arise from, among other factors, (1) algorithmic limitations in the ability of PRS model training to detect causal variants, rather than nearby variants with ancestry-dependent correlations t…

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