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. 2024 Jun 21;32(8):987–997. doi: 10.1038/s41431-024-01647-2

Table 4.

Potential solutions for improving polygenic risk score (PRS) genotyping performance with respect to the achievement of allele frequencies (AFs) expected by CanRisk, using alternative alleles or proxies.

rs ID Locus (hg19) Expected AF Workaround gnomAD AF IMGAG FB AF
rs12406858 1-118141492-A-C 0.2654 Proxy rs1966228 0.2622 0.3064
rs11693806 2-218292158-C-G 0.7289 Proxy rs3821098 0.7422 0.7443
rs34207738 3-141112859-CTT-C 0.4205 Summing up the AFs of deletions of two and three thymines 0.4344 0.4167
rs10074269 5-169591460-T-C 0.3393 Proxy rs4562056 0.3414 0.3511
rs73754909 6-87803819-T-C 0.2809 Alternative allele rs77846138a 0.2846 0.2578
Proxy rs12664322 0.2849 0.2791
rs55941023 6-130341728-C-CT 0.7113 Proxy rs1415700 0.7049 0.7050
Proxy rs11390217 0.7058 0.7046
rs1511243 8-76230943-A-G 0.8289 Proxy rs6472903 0.8294 0.8376
rs10975870 9-6880263-A-G 0.2900 Proxy rs12380608 0.2863 0.2840
Proxy rs10975887 0.2849 0.2837
rs4880038 9-36928288-T-C 0.5427 Proxy rs4880039 0.5449 0.5436
Proxy rs7032313 0.5446 0.5440
rs542275778 10-22477776-ACC-A 0.0214 Proxy rs112287594 0.0185 0.0270
rs111833376 10-71335574-C-T 0.3122 Summing up AFs of rs111833376 and rs753981427b 0.3200 0.3163
Proxy rs12769661 0.2984 0.2929
rs9421410 10-123095209-G-A 0.3246 Proxy rs7913694 0.3142 0.3110
Proxy rs35098964 0.3139 0.3099
rs35054928 10-123340431-GC-G 0.5971 Proxy rs2981579 0.5908 0.5996
rs11049431 12-28347382-C-T 0.2151 Proxy rs11049519 0.2142 0.2039
rs144767203 15-100905819-A-C 0.1072 Proxy rs58855876 0.1078 0.1043
Proxy rs113438754 0.1078 0.1043
rs12709163 16-6963972-C-G 0.7915 Proxy rs1492386 0.7951 0.7684
rs9931038 16-85145977-T-C 0.4851 Proxy rs60296580 0.4903 0.5082
rs79461387 17-29168077-G-T 0.2573 Alternative allele rs550458309c 0.2719 0.0000
rs2668667 17-44283858-G-A 0.1919 Proxy rs2532237 0.1860 0.1957
Proxy rs150290194 0.1765 0.1858
rs1111207 18-24125857-T-C 0.4243 Proxy rs1111208 0.4249 0.4135
rs66987842 22-40904707-CT-C 0.1068 Proxy rs6001949 0.1003 0.1195

Resulting AFs were investigated based on gnomAD v3.1.2 non-Finnish European data and genotyping results of 1410 European whole-genome sequencing (WGS) samples using (unforced) freebayes (FB), provided by the Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics (IMGAG) at University Hospital Tübingen.

a6-87094100-CAGAAACTTTAAAAGATTCCTTTT-C (hg19).

b10-71335572-TCC-T (hg19).

c17-29168076-AGAG-A (hg19).