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Electronic medical records for genetic research: results of the eMERGE consortium.
Science translational medicine - 20 Apr 2011
Kho Abel N, Pacheco Jennifer A, Peissig Peggy L, Rasmussen Luke, Newton Katherine M, Weston Noah, Crane Paul K, Pathak Jyotishman, Chute Christopher G, Bielinski Suzette J, Kullo Iftikhar J, Li Rongling, Manolio Teri A, Chisholm Rex L, Denny Joshua C
Abstract excerpt
Clinical data in electronic medical records (EMRs) are a potential source of longitudinal clinical data for research. The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network (eMERGE) investigates whether data captured through routine clinical care using EMRs can identify disease phenotypes with sufficient positive and negative predictive values for use in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Using data from five...
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