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From Nagelkerke's R2 to Liability-Scale Variance Explained for Polygenic Scores

It is desirable to quantify the prediction accuracy of polygenic scores (PGS) for disease on the scale of liability and adjusted for case-control ascertainment in the test sample, because that allows comparison across prevalence and ascertainment. Previous expressions have focused in their derivation and implementation on linear regression on the observed 0-1 scale followed by a transformation of…

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