| Title: | An ensemble penalized regression method for multi-ancestry polygenic risk prediction |
| Journal: | Nature Communications |
| Published: | 15 Apr 2024 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38622117/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47357-7 |
| URL: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47357-7.pdf |
Publication 9902
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Abstract
Great efforts are being made to develop advanced polygenic risk scores (PRS) to improve the prediction of complex traits and diseases. However, most existing PRS are primarily trained on European ancestry populations, limiting their transferability to non-European populations. In this article, we propose a novel method for generating multi-ancestry Polygenic Risk scOres based on enSemble of PEnalized Regression models (PROSPER). PROSPER integrates genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary statistics from diverse populations to develop ancestry-specific PRS with improved predictive power for minority populations. The method uses a combination of L1$${{{{{{\mathscr{L}}}}}}}_{1}$$ (lasso) and L2$${{{{{{\mathscr{L}}}}}}}_{2}$$ (ridge) penalty functions, a parsimonious specification of the penalty parameters across populations, and an ensemble step to combine PRS generated across different penalty parameters. We evaluate the performance of PROSPER and other existing methods on large-scale simulated and real datasets, including those from 23andMe Inc., the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium, and All of Us. Results show that PROSPER can substantially improve multi-ancestry polygenic prediction compared to alternative methods across a wide variety of genetic architectures. In real data analyses, for example, PROSPER increased out-of-sample prediction R2 for continuous traits by an average of 70% compared to a state-of-the-art Bayesian method (PRS-CSx) in the African ancestry population. Further, PROSPER is computationally highly scalable for the analysis of large SNP contents and many diverse populations.</p>
10 Authors
- Jingning Zhang
- Jianan Zhan
- Jin Jin
- Cheng Ma
- Ruzhang Zhao
- Jared O'Connell
- Yunxuan Jiang
- Bertram L. Koelsch
- Haoyu Zhang
- Nilanjan Chatterjee
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