🚨 NEW research⚕️ 🩺
Byg et al. examine whether PRS for birthweight on adult cardiometabolic risk depend on phenotypic birthweight.

🚨 NEW research⚕️ 🩺
Byg et al. examine whether PRS for birthweight on adult cardiometabolic risk depend on phenotypic birthweight.
đź’ˇ Special Communication: In psychiatry, #PolygenicScores, rare variant testing, and #Pharmacogenomics may have value when used selectively to inform diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring, and medication safety rather than population-wide screening.
Meta-analysis to be taken with a large pinch of salt, imo.
Correlations are small, and "Common genetic variants explain a moderate 4.8–9.3% of the variance in measures of each trait, and 9.3–13.3% among instruments with typical measurement reliability."