Genetics in Context: Social Factors Modify Polygenic Risk Across Multiple Cardiometabolic Diseases

Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are increasingly used for disease prediction, but whether their associations vary across social contexts remains poorly understood. Here, we leveraged the large and diverse All of Us cohort to examine interactions between PRS and social determinants of health (SDoH) across eight prevalent chronic diseases and developed disease-specific polysocial risk scores (PsRS). We found consistent evidence of SDoH modification of PRS-disease associations for cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and chronic kidney disease, with PRS associat

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