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A Genome-Wide Association Study of Red Blood Cell Traits Using the Electronic Medical Record
28 Sept 2010
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is a potential source for high throughput phenotyping to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS), including those of medically relevant quantitative traits. We describe use of the Mayo Clinic EMR to conduct a GWAS of red blood cell (RBC) traits in a cohort of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and controls without PAD. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL...
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