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Calculation of Polygenic Risk Scores in PRSice

Difficulty level
Intermediate
Speaker

This is a tutorial on using the open-source software PRSice to calculate a set of polygenic risk scores (PRS) for a study sample. Users will also learn how to read PRS into R, visualize distributions, and perform basic association analyses. 

Topics covered in this lesson
  • PRSice open source software
  • Genetic analysis
Prerequisites

Knowledge of R programming language