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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Jan 4;168(3):703–712. doi: 10.1007/s10549-017-4638-1

Table 1.

Comparison of the performance of different polygenic risk scores (PRS)

Model # of SNPs SNP panel Odds ratio source PRS, Mean (SD) AUC (95% CI)

Case Control
1 75 BCAC [6] WHI [17] −0.017 (0.539) 0.021 (0.530) 0.520 (0.501–0.539)

2 75 BCAC [6] AABC [13,12] −0.012 (0.351) 0.015 (0.352) 0.520 (0.501–0.539)

3 77 BCAC [6] BCAC [6] −0.013 (0.425) 0.016 (0.417) 0.516 (0.497–0.535)

4 93 BCAC [6,2] BCAC [6,2] −0.024 (0.563) 0.029 (0.549) 0.525 (0.506–0.544)

5 45 SNPs with the effect in same direction between WHI and AABC WHI [17] −0.022 (0.457) 0.027 (0.446) 0.528 (0.509–0.547)
6 AABC [13,12] −0.010 (0.310) 0.012 (0.305) 0.519 (0.500–0.538)

7 34 SNPs with the effect in same direction among WHI, AABC and BCAC WHI [17] −0.023 (0.423) 0.028 (0.419) 0.531 (0.512–0.550)
8 AABC [13,12] −0.011 (0.292) 0.013 (0.290) 0.522 (0.503–0.540)
9 BCAC [6,2] −0.018 (0.413) 0.022 (0.398) 0.524 (0.506–0.543)

Abbreviation: WHI, Women’s Health Initiative (African American); AABC, African-American Breast Cancer GWAS study; BCAC, Breast Cancer Association Consortium; ROOT, GWAS of Breast Cancer in the African Diaspora; AUC, area under the receiver operating curve; CI, confidence interval.