Article
Estimate of disease heritability using 7.4 million familial relationships inferred from electronic health records
2016-07-28
Abstract excerpt
Heritability is essential for understanding the biological causes of disease, but requires laborious patient recruitment and phenotype ascertainment. Electronic health records (EHR) passively capture a wide range of clinically relevant data and provide a novel resource for studying the heritability of traits that are not typically accessible. EHRs contain next-of-kin information collected via patient emergency con...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fb752241-0d0a-5658-8a62-1c9a7413cd56
- DOI
- 10.1101/066068