A polygenic risk score for nasopharyngeal carcinoma shows potential for risk stratification and personalized screening.

ABSTRACT: Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have the potential to identify individuals at risk of diseases, optimizing treatment, and predicting survival outcomes. Here, we construct and validate a genome-wide association study (GWAS) derived PRS for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), using a multi-center study of six populations (6 059 NPC cases and 7 582 controls), and evaluate its utility in a nested case-control study. We show that the PRS enables effective identification of NPC high-risk individuals (AUC = 0.65) and improves the risk prediction with the PRS incremental deciles in each population (P_trend ranging from 2.79 × 10^-7 to 4.79 × 10^-44). By incorporating the PRS into EBV-serology-based NPC screening, the test's positive predictive value (PPV) is increased from an

SUBMITTER: He YQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9005522 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature