{"id":21350,"date":"2020-11-20T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=21350"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:42","slug":"democratizing-genetic-data-for-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/20\/democratizing-genetic-data-for-cancer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratizing genetic data for cancer research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"graphic showing to people icons next to DAN strings.\" class=\"wp-image-21352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-665x374.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(M Health Lab\/Stephanie King)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By distilling information from hundreds of data sources, U-M Precision Health researchers have launched an open-access, online repository called Cancer PRSWeb that will help accelerate advancements in cancer prevention and prediction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers created polygenic risk scores (PRS) for 35 cancer traits&nbsp;and then evaluated the scores using electronic health record data from the Michigan Genomics Initiative and the UK Biobank. \u201cWe hope this platform will be useful to the cancer research community worldwide,\u201d says lead author <strong>Lars Fritsche<\/strong>, an associate research scientist in biostatistics in the School of Public Health and the recipient of a 2018 Precision Health Investigators Award for this research. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By distilling information from hundreds of data sources, U-M Precision Health researchers have launched an open-access, online repository called Cancer PRSWeb that will help accelerate advancements in cancer prevention and prediction. The researchers created polygenic risk scores (PRS) for 35 cancer traits&nbsp;and then evaluated the scores using electronic health record data from the Michigan Genomics Initiative and the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/20\/democratizing-genetic-data-for-cancer-research\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[714,51,668,130],"class_list":["post-21350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-data-science","tag-medical","tag-precision-health","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics.jpg",850,478,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-200x112.jpg",200,112,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-768x432.jpg",665,374,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-700x394.jpg",600,338,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics.jpg",850,478,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics.jpg",850,478,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics-665x374.jpg",665,374,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Polygentic_risk_scores_comparing_genetics.jpg",400,225,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By distilling information from hundreds of data sources, U-M Precision Health researchers have launched an open-access, online repository called Cancer PRSWeb that will help accelerate advancements in cancer prevention and prediction. The researchers created polygenic risk scores (PRS) for 35 cancer traits&nbsp;and then evaluated the scores using electronic health record data from the Michigan Genomics&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21354,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350\/revisions\/21354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}