Polygenic Risk Scores with Giordano Bottà

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Our guest this week is Giordano Bottà, a biologist and bioinformatician, who is joining us to discuss polygenic risk scores.

Giordano earned a PhD in Public Health and he has extensive experience in analysis of large genomics dataset. During his career he has had the opportunity to work with some of the top genomics experts in the world at the University of Oxford, publishing in the journal Nature.
He is a co-founder and CEO of Allelica, which created a software to help clinical genetics labs to perform polygenic risk score analysis.

On This Episode We Discuss:
- Defining polygenic risk scores (PRS)
- How PRSs are empowering the next generation of clinical genomics
- Types of conditions that PRS can be calculated for
- Who can benefit the most from PRSs
- How Allelica is addressing the underrepresentation of people of Non-European descent in genetic studies with PRS
- Using PRS to assess risk for heart disease and cancer

To learn more about Giordano, check him out on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, and stay up to date with Allelica on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Stay tuned for the next new episode of DNA Today on January 28, 2022 where we’ll be discussing cytogenomics!

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