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Electronic medical records and genomics (eMERGE) network exploration in cataract: several new potential susceptibility loci.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2014
Ritchie Marylyn D, Verma Shefali S, Hall Molly A, Goodloe Robert J, Berg Richard L, Carrell Dave S, Carlson Christopher S, Chen Lin, Crosslin David R, Denny Joshua C, Jarvik Gail, Li Rongling, Linneman James G, Pathak Jyoti, Peissig Peggy, Rasmussen Luke V, Ramirez Andrea H, Wang Xiaoming, Wilke Russell A, Wolf Wendy A, Torstenson Eric S, Turner Stephen D, McCarty Catherine A
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Cataract is the leading cause of blindness in the world, and in the United States accounts for approximately 60% of Medicare costs related to vision. The purpose of this study was to identify genetic markers for age-related cataract through a genome-wide association study (GWAS). METHODS: In the electronic medical records and genomics (eMERGE) network, we ran an electronic phenotyping algorithm on...
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