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Chunk #9 — MATERIALS AND METHODS — Discovery datasets and meta-analysis

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Evaluating risk for alcohol use disorder: Polygenic risk scores and family history.
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the contrary, using all variants, the variation explained was only 5% (SE=0.002) by using LDSC (Finucane et al., 2015), indicating that many variants with lower P-values were actually study-specific and including them in calculating PRS would introduce noise therefore lower their performance. Metal (Willer et al., 2010) was used for meta-analysis with the effect of each variant weighted by the sample sizes.