Improving performance of polygenic risk scores for hypertension across two ancestry groups

• Marguerite R. Irvin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: irvinr@uab.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1442-2023

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• Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Nicole D. Armstrong,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6483-4560

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• Amit Patki,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Ulrich Broeckel,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Research Institute, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Zhe Wang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Leslie A. Lange,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

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• Nita A. Limdi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Alicia Huerta-Chagoya,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Joohyun Kim,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5913-452X

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• Maggie C. Y. Ng,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4133-2007

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• Josep M. Mercader,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Hemant K. Tiwari

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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