Southern California Symposium on Polygenic Risk Scores

Friday September 20, 2025  9:30 AM (Pacific Daylight Time)

 

Time Speaker Title
9:30

Jim Brody

UC Irvine

Welcome
9:40

Kenneth Westerman
MGH/Harvard

Genome-wide and pathway-specific polygenic scores modify the relationship between adiposity and liver biomarkers

 

10:10

 Tim Raben
Michigan State University

Polygenic scores from the Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI)
10:40

 Jim Brody
UC Irvine

Genetic Risk scores as a data science problem
10:50

 Ruowang Li
Cedars-Sinai

Beyond Statistical Significance for Variable selection in predictive modeling
11:00

Break 

 11:10 Ahmed Kattab
Scripps / University Alabama Birmingham
Personalizing Type 2 Diabetes Risk Prediction
11:40 Tobias Wolfram
Herasight
Polygenic Prediction in the Context of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
 12:10
12:20

Xiahoe Tian
Cornell University 

PRISM: ancestry-aware integration of tissue-specific genomic annotations enhances the transferability of polygenic scores
12:30 

Jim Brody 

 

Closing