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PheCode-guided multi-modal topic modeling of electronic health records improves disease incidence prediction and GWAS discovery from UK Biobank.
Briefings in bioinformatics - 7 Jan 2026
Yang Ziqi, Song Ziyang, Zabad Shadi, Legault Marc-André, Li Yue
Abstract excerpt
Phenome-wide association studies rely on disease definitions derived from diagnostic codes, often failing to leverage the full richness of electronic health records (EHR). We present MixEHR-SAGE, a PheCode-guided multi-modal topic model that integrates diagnoses, procedures, and medications to enhance phenotyping from large-scale EHRs. By combining expert-informed priors with probabilistic inference, MixEHR-SAGE...
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