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Model can be trained to guess your height

Postdoc Bjarni Vilhjálmsson and Aarhus University researchers have developed a probability model that can be trained to calculate the impact of genetic variants on our appearance and diseases. Providing accurate indications of our genomes is still a long way off.

Read more (in Danish only) here.

You can read more about LDpred (LD for Linkage Disequilibrium) in the article "Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores" inThe American Journal of Human Genetics.