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. 2020 Nov 22;10:403. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-01074-z

Table 2.

Summary of polygenic risk score (PRS) analyses using two P-value thresholds and two different GWAS datasets with and without markers in the APOE region.

PRS constructed based on GWAS by Jansen et al.7 PRS constructed based on GWAS by IGAP, 2013
Including APOE Excluding APOE Including APOE Excluding APOE
S1(P < 5E-8) S5( < 0.05) S1(P < 5E-8) S5( < 0.05) S1(P < 5E-8) S5( < 0.05) S1(P < 5E-8) S5( < 0.05)
Phenotype r2 P-value r2 P-value r2 P-value r2 P-value r2 P-value r2 P-value r2 P-value r2 P-value
AD 3.09% 8E-05 2.89% 0.0002 1.22% 0.0126 0.99% 0.0244 2.98% 0.0001 1.69% 0.0034 0.78% 0.0443 0.10% 0.4745
MCI 0.12% 0.3767 0.77% 0.0249 0.07% 0.4894 0.61% 0.0449 0.51% 0.0682 0.13% 0.3537 0.49% 0.0743 0.00% 0.8764
AMYLOIDstatus 1.38% 0.0004 1.01% 0.0025 0.38% 0.0643 0.04% 0.5599 3.82% 9E-09 2.95% 3E-07 1.09% 0.0018 0.34% 0.0766
Amyloid.MCI 4.59% 0.0008 5.82% 0.0002 1.33% 0.0684 0.87% 0.1394 12.54% 1E-07 7.45% 2E-05 4.63% 0.0008 0.82% 0.1513
Amyloid.NC 0.83% 0.1637 0.23% 0.4657 0.20% 0.4928 0.01% 0.8786 2.45% 0.0174 5.10% 0.0008 0.24% 0.4592 1.28% 0.0866
AB_Zscore 1.20% 0.0003 0.80% 0.0031 0.27% 0.0871 0.01% 0.7683 2.61% 7E-08 3.08% 4E-09 0.39% 0.0382 0.38% 0.04
Central_CSF_ratiodich 3.86% 2E-06 1.94% 0.0007 1.49% 0.0029 0.10% 0.4414 5.87% 9E-09 3.52% 6E-06 1.58% 0.0022 0.22% 0.2439
Local_AB42_Abnormal 3.68% 4E-06 1.13% 0.0098 1.65% 0.0019 0.02% 0.7287 3.40% 1E-05 1.66% 0.0018 0.94% 0.0184 0.01% 0.7873
Central_CSF_AB38 0.21% 0.2273 0.00% 0.8587 0.32% 0.1305 0.01% 0.7838 0.00% 0.8816 0.28% 0.1614 0.03% 0.6416 0.33% 0.1279
Central_CSF_AB40 0.24% 0.1805 0.01% 0.7974 0.28% 0.1514 0.05% 0.5298 0.05% 0.5418 0.44% 0.0718 0.07% 0.4874 0.36% 0.106
log_Central_CSF_AB4240ratio 2.06% 4E-05 1.68% 0.0002 0.49% 0.0453 0.07% 0.4428 3.74% 3E-08 2.55% 5E-06 0.56% 0.0323 0.05% 0.5324
log_Central_CSF_AB42 1.52% 0.0005 0.52% 0.0445 0.56% 0.0373 0.01% 0.8297 2.31% 2E-05 2.17% 4E-05 0.53% 0.0425 0.25% 0.1605
Local_PTAU_Abnormal 0.31% 0.1602 0.03% 0.662 0.06% 0.5386 0.01% 0.8148 0.69% 0.0347 0.38% 0.1192 0.19% 0.2697 0.09% 0.4424
Local_TTAU_Abnormal 0.93% 0.0107 0.01% 0.7505 0.56% 0.0465 0.12% 0.3625 0.82% 0.0166 0.27% 0.1644 0.17% 0.267 0.04% 0.5771
Ptau_ASSAY_Zscore 0.34% 0.0909 0.00% 0.9833 0.09% 0.3922 0.05% 0.5191 0.37% 0.0806 0.08% 0.4258 0.01% 0.7755 0.01% 0.8237
Ttau_ASSAY_Zscore 0.51% 0.032 0.03% 0.6082 0.23% 0.1529 0.00% 0.9666 0.09% 0.3566 0.11% 0.3269 0.03% 0.5811 0.00% 0.8676

Italicized values = nominally significant association.

r2 = variance explained; bold font = largest r2 (= most variance explained) for trait in question.

A full listing of results from these PRS analyses can be found in Supplementary righthandcolumns of Table 2 and bottom part of SupplementaryTable 19 (for Jansen et al. GWAS) and Supplementary Table 20 (for IGAP GWAS).