Using Polygenic Risk Scores to Aid Diagnosis of Patients With Early Inflammatory Arthritis : Results From the Norfolk Arthritis Register

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OBJECTIVE: There is growing evidence that genetic data are of benefit in the rheumatology outpatient setting by aiding early diagnosis. A genetic probability tool (G-PROB) has been developed to aid diagnosis has not yet been tested in a real-world setting. Our aim was to assess whether G-PROB could aid diagnosis in the rheumatology outpatient setting using data from the Norfolk Arthritis Register (NOAR), a prospective observational cohort of patients presenting with early inflammatory arthritis.

METHODS: Genotypes and clinician diagnoses were obtained from patients from NOAR. Six G-probabilities (0%-100%) were created for each patient based on known disease-associated odds ratios of published genetic risk variants, each corresponding to one disease of rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriatic arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, gout, or "other diseases." Performance of the G-probabilities compared with clinician diagnosis was assessed.

RESULTS: We tested G-PROB on 1,047 patients. Calibration of G-probabilities with clinician diagnosis was high, with regression coefficients of 1.047, where 1.00 is ideal. G-probabilities discriminated clinician diagnosis with pooled areas under the curve (95% confidence interval) of 0.85 (0.84-0.86). G-probabilities <5% corresponded to a negative predictive value of 96.0%, for which it was possible to suggest >2 unlikely diseases for 94% of patients and >3 for 53.7% of patients. G-probabilities >50% corresponded to a positive predictive value of 70.4%. In 55.7% of patients, the disease with the highest G-probability corresponded to clinician diagnosis.

CONCLUSION: G-PROB converts complex genetic information into meaningful and interpretable conditional probabilities, which may be especially helpful at eliminating unlikely diagnoses in the rheumatology outpatient setting.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:76

Enthalten in:

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) - 76(2024), 5 vom: 05. Apr., Seite 696-703

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hum, Ryan M [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Seema D [VerfasserIn]
Stadler, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Viatte, Sebastien [VerfasserIn]
Ho, Pauline [VerfasserIn]
Nair, Nisha [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Chenfu [VerfasserIn]
Yap, Chuan Fu [VerfasserIn]
Soomro, Mehreen [VerfasserIn]
Plant, Darren [VerfasserIn]
Humphreys, Jenny H [VerfasserIn]
MacGregor, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Yates, Max [VerfasserIn]
Verstappen, Suzanne [VerfasserIn]
Barton, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Bowes, John [VerfasserIn]
all NOAR collaborators [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 25.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/art.42760

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365014060