Electronic health records: The next wave of complex disease genetics

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue R1, 2018, Pages R14-R21

  Wolford, Brooke N ^a,b   Willer, Cristen J ^a,b,c   Surakka, Ida ^c  

^a Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics ^*  (United States)

^b Center for Statistical Genetics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOBANK; CLOUD COMPUTING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRENDS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLOUD COMPUTING; DATABASES, GENETIC; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85048616382     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddy081     Document Type: Review

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