Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Methods and Analysis for Populations of Diverse Ancestry Coordinating Center (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Funding Opportunity RFA-HG-20-002 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The goal of the intended FOA is to establish a Coordinating Center (CC) for PRS Methods and Analysis for Populations of Diverse Ancestry to provide centralized support, infrastructure, coordination, and data analysis for the program collaboratively generate and refine PRS for populations of diverse ancestry by integrating existing datasets with genomic and phenotype data for a range of complex diseases and traits. Together with PRS Centers (described in a separate FOA), grantees funded under the intended FOA will form a Consortium with the primary objectives of: 1) leveraging genetic diversity to develop methods and improve the applicability of PRS to predict health and disease risk across diverse populations, and for a broad range of health and disease measures; and 2) optimizing the integration of large-scale, harmonized genomic and phenotype data to facilitate collaborative analysis, dissemination of PRS-related data, and development of related methods and resources.
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - Category: Research Source Type: funding