The Economist Genomics Research

Polygenic Embryo Screening & Pleiotropic Tradeoff Simulator

Explore multi-trait Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) embryo selection. High trait selection shifts overall population expectations while introducing correlated pleiotropic risk and predictive loss across non-reference ancestries.

Selection Objective Weights

Cognitive PRS Weight +1.0
Cardiovascular Health Weight +0.8
Autoimmune Risk Avoidance +0.5
Height Preference Weight +0.2
Cohort Top Choice Count Top 1
Ancestry Reference Baseline
SIMULATED EMBRYO BATCH (10 CANDIDATES) Click card to inspect radar profile
PARETO FRONTIER: COGNITIVE VS PLEIOTROPIC RISK
MULTI-TRAIT RADAR: EMBRYO E1

Population & Trade-off Telemetry

Expected Cognitive Shift: +0.00 SD
Pleiotropic Risk Shift: +0.00 SD
Expected Accuracy Rate: 100%
Selected Cohort Index: E1
PLEIOTROPIC GENETIC CORRELATION MATRIX
Trait Cognitive Cardio Autoimmune Height
Cognitive 1.00 -0.15 +0.32 +0.12
Cardio -0.15 1.00 +0.18 -0.08
Autoimmune +0.32 +0.18 1.00 +0.05
Height +0.12 -0.08 +0.05 1.00
Ancestry Prediction Penalty: PRS models derived primarily from European GWAS reference panels suffer severe predictive power decay in non-European ancestries due to allele frequency shift and linkage disequilibrium differences.

Polygenic Embryo Screening & Pleiotropic Tradeoff Simulator — Validated Scientific Model

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