| Title: | Improving the reliability of polygenic risk score-based prediction for cardiovascular and renal complications across ancestries in type 2 diabetes using Mondrian Cross-Conformal Prediction |
| Journal: | PLOS Computational Biology |
| Published: | 13 Aug 2026 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42594161/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014670 |
| URL: | https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014670&type=printable |
Publication 21015
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Abstract
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) developed in European populations often show reduced predictive performance in non-European populations, limiting their clinical utility. This lack of transferability across ancestries remains a major challenge in genomic medicine and raises concerns about health equity. We aimed to evaluate whether uncertainty-aware prediction, implemented through Mondrian Cross-Conformal Prediction, improves the performance and reliability of polygenic risk score-based predictions across ancestries for nephropathy, stroke, and myocardial infarction in individuals with type 2 diabetes in a multi-ethnic cohort. We leveraged Mondrian Cross-Conformal Prediction (MCCP), an uncertainty quantification framework, combined with logistic regression applied to a multi-polygenic risk score (multiPRS) to predict the risk of nephropathy, stroke, and myocardial infarction in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Two training frameworks were evaluated: one using 4,098 individuals with type 2 diabetes of European ancestry from the ADVANCE trial for training and 17,574 White British, 1,145 South Asian, and 749 African UK Biobank participants for testing; and another using the 17,574 White British UK Biobank participants for training and the South Asian and African participants for testing. Logistic regression provided robust baseline performance across populations. On top of this baseline, MCCP did not improve performance but added capabilities absent from probability-based stratification: for each individual, it issued a prediction together with an explicit confidence and credibility level; it allowed a tolerated error level to be set in advance and delivered prediction sets respecting it in the majority of settings; and it flagged individuals for whom no reliable prediction could be made. Applying MCCP to PRS-based prediction thus enables uncertainty-aware risk stratification and improves the reliability of risk prediction across ancestries, providing a more equitable framework for clinical use.</p>
17 Keywords
- Black People
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Computational Biology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Risk Score
- Humans
- Logistic Models
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Multifactorial Inheritance
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Reproducibility of Results
- South Asian People
- United Kingdom
- White People
9 Authors
- Edoh Kodji
- Redha Attaoua
- Mounsif Haloui
- Camil Hishmih
- Mirjam Seitz
- Mark Woodward
- Julie G. Hussin
- Pavel Hamet
- Johanne Tremblay
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
|---|---|
| 49731 | Searching for genetic links between fertility disorders and other health outcomes |
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