TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dehestani, Mohammad
AU  - Liu, Hui
AU  - Gasser, Thomas
TI  - Polygenic Risk Scores Contribute to Personalized Medicine of Parkinson's Disease.
JO  - Journal of Personalized Medicine
VL  - 11
IS  - 10
SN  - 2075-4426
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI
M1  - DZNE-2022-00123
SP  - 1030
PY  - 2021
N1  - CC BY
AB  - Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons. The vast majority of PD patients develop the disease sporadically and it is assumed that the cause lies in polygenic and environmental components. The overall polygenic risk is the result of a large number of common low-risk variants discovered by large genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Polygenic risk scores (PRS), generated by compiling genome-wide significant variants, are a useful prognostic tool that quantifies the cumulative effect of genetic risk in a patient and in this way helps to identify high-risk patients. Although there are limitations to the construction and application of PRS, such as considerations of limited genetic underpinning of diseases explained by SNPs and generalizability of PRS to other populations, this personalized risk prediction could make a promising contribution to stratified medicine and tailored therapeutic interventions in the future.
KW  - Parkinson’s disease (Other)
KW  - personalized medicine (Other)
KW  - polygenic risk scores (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:34683174
C2  - pmc:PMC8539098
DO  - DOI:10.3390/jpm11101030
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/163360
ER  -