What a Polygenic Risk Score Can and Can’t Tell You

Harvard Medicine |
August 2024
Press

“Scientists have made great strides in predicting the genetic risk of common diseases. Figuring out what to do with that information may be just as hard.” In this piece from Harvard Medicine, Robert Green, MD, MPH discusses the clinical utility of polygenic risk scores, drawing on his experience returning these results to patients in the Preventive Genomics Clinic.