Patents by Inventor Michael WEALE

Michael WEALE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240428883
    Abstract: There is provided a computer-implemented method of analysing genetic data comprising: receiving a polygenic risk score for a target phenotype or target phenotype combination for a target individual; receiving individual genetic data for the target individual, the individual genetic data informative about an ancestry of the target individual; determining an individual position in an ancestry space using the individual genetic data; and calculating a genetic contribution to a risk for the target individual for the target phenotype or target phenotype combination using the polygenic risk score and the individual position. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: GENOMICS PLC
    Inventors: Michael WEALE, Vincent Yann Marie PLAGNOL, Rachel MOORE, Daniel WELLS, Priyanka SETH, Duncan PALMER
  • Publication number: 20240105280
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of analysing genetic data about an organism comprising receiving a plurality of input units. Each input unit comprises information about the association between genetic variants in a region of the genome and phenotypes or phenotype combinations. The method comprises carrying out iterations comprising, for each variant determining for which of the phenotypes or phenotype combinations the variant is causal based on the input units. If the variant is causal for phenotypes or phenotype combinations, a sampled effect size is determined of the variant on the phenotypes or phenotype combinations based on the input units and information about correlations between the variants in the region. For each variant, a prediction effect size is determined variant on the phenotypes or phenotype combinations based on an average across the iterations of the sampled effect sizes or of posterior effect sizes calculated using the sampled effect sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: GENOMICS PLC
    Inventors: Rachel MOORE, Vincent Yann Marie PLAGNOL, Michael WEALE, Daniel WELLS, Christopher Charles Alan Spencer
  • Publication number: 20240038330
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of analysing genetic data about an organism comprising receiving a plurality of input units. Each input unit comprises information about the association between genetic variants in a region of the genome and a target phenotype. One or more iterations are carried out comprising, for each variant, determining whether the variant is causal for the target phenotype. If the variant is causal, a sampled effect size is determined for each input unit based on the input units and correlations between the plurality of genetic variants in the region. The sampled effect size is non-zero for all of the input units. For each variant, a prediction effect size is determined for each input unit based on an average across the iterations of the sampled effect sizes for the input unit or of posterior effect sizes for the input unit calculated using the sampled effect sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: GENOMICS PLC
    Inventors: Rachel MOORE, Vincent Yann Marie PLAGNOL, Fernando RIVEROS-MCKAY, Michael WEALE, Daniel WELLS, Christopher Charles Alan Spencer