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Chunk #18 — METHODS — Polygenic scoring.

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Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use.
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Polygenic risk scores (PRS) were computed using LDpred66, which accounts for linkage disequilibrium between variants. Since we do not know the variance-covariance matrix of the effects in the training sample (here, the GWAS results), we replace this matrix with a block diagonal matrix estimated using LD patterns from the prediction cohorts, after dropping cryptically-related individuals and ancestry outliers.