Polygenic score
Polygenic scores can make prediction of disease better. They help to know who will get the disease. Polygenic scores tell something new about a person's risk for a disease. This means that polygenic scores can be useful even if there are other already known risks. For example, a risk for lung cancer is smoking and a risk for heart disease is obesity. Some risks for diseases are only possible to know later in someone's life. However, polygenic scores can be made at the very beginning of someone's life. This way, polygenic scores can help to know someone's risk for disease earlier on. Some people have polygenic scores that say they are at high risk for a disease. These people can be helped earlier so they are less likely to get a disease.