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Contrasting Association Results between Existing PheWAS Phenotype Definition Methods and Five Validated Electronic Phenotypes.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium - 1 Jan 2015
Leader Joseph B, Pendergrass Sarah A, Verma Anurag, Carey David J, Hartzel Dustin N, Ritchie Marylyn D, Kirchner H Lester
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Phenome-Wide Association Studies (PheWAS) comprehensively investigate the association between genetic variation and a wide array of outcome traits. Electronic health record (EHR) based PheWAS uses various abstractions of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes to identify case/control status for diagnoses that are used as the phenotypic variables. However, there have not been...
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