Fig. 2: Prediction accuracy relative to European-ancestry individuals across 17 quantitative traits and 5 continental populations in the UKBB: All phenotypes shown here are quantitative anthropometric and blood-panel traits.
From: Evaluating the promise of inclusion of African ancestry populations in genomics
Prediction target individuals do not overlap with the discovery cohort and are unrelated. Violin plots show distributions of relative prediction accuracies, points show mean values, and error bars show s.e.m. values. [Reprinted by permission from Springer Nature Customer Service Centre GmbH: Springer Nature, Nature Genetics, “Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities”, Alicia R. Martin et al.42].
