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Application of clinical text data for phenome-wide association studies (PheWASs).
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 Jun 2015
Hebbring Scott J, Rastegar-Mojarad Majid, Ye Zhan, Mayer John, Jacobson Crystal, Lin Simon
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MOTIVATION: Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are effective for describing genetic complexities of common diseases. Phenome-wide association studies (PheWASs) offer an alternative and complementary approach to GWAS using data embedded in the electronic health record (EHR) to define the phenome. International Classification of Disease version 9 (ICD9) codes are used frequently to define the phenome, but...
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