Using phecodes for research with the electronic health record: from PheWAS to PheRS

L Bastarache - Annual review of biomedical data science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Electronic health records (EHRs) are a rich source of data for researchers, but extracting
meaningful information out of this highly complex data source is challenging. Phecodes …

Unravelling the human genome–phenome relationship using phenome-wide association studies

WS Bush, MT Oetjens, DC Crawford - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Advances in genoty** technology have, over the past decade, enabled the focused
search for common genetic variation associated with human diseases and traits. With the …

Efficiently controlling for case-control imbalance and sample relatedness in large-scale genetic association studies

W Zhou, JB Nielsen, LG Fritsche, R Dey… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for thousands of phenotypes in large biobanks,
most binary traits have substantially fewer cases than controls. Both of the widely used …

Systematic comparison of phenome-wide association study of electronic medical record data and genome-wide association study data

JC Denny, L Bastarache, MD Ritchie, RJ Carroll… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Candidate gene and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic
variants that modulate risk for human disease; many of these associations require further …

Evaluating phecodes, clinical classification software, and ICD-9-CM codes for phenome-wide association studies in the electronic health record

WQ Wei, LA Bastarache, RJ Carroll, JE Marlo… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Objective To compare three grou**s of Electronic Health Record (EHR) billing codes for
their ability to represent clinically meaningful phenotypes and to replicate known genetic …

The phenotypic legacy of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals

CN Simonti, B Vernot, L Bastarache, E Bottinger… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Many modern human genomes retain DNA inherited from interbreeding with archaic
hominins, such as Neandertals, yet the influence of this admixture on human traits is largely …

Natural language processing for EHR-based computational phenoty**

Z Zeng, Y Deng, X Li, T Naumann… - IEEE/ACM transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reviews recent advances in applying natural language processing (NLP) to
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for computational phenoty**. NLP-based …

Phenome-wide association studies as a tool to advance precision medicine

JC Denny, L Bastarache… - Annual review of genomics …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Beginning in the early 2000s, the accumulation of biospecimens linked to electronic health
records (EHRs) made possible genome-phenome studies (ie, comparative analyses of …

[HTML][HTML] Semi-supervised learning of the electronic health record for phenotype stratification

BK Beaulieu-Jones, CS Greene - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2016 - Elsevier
Patient interactions with health care providers result in entries to electronic health records
(EHRs). EHRs were built for clinical and billing purposes but contain many data points about …

Extracting research-quality phenotypes from electronic health records to support precision medicine

WQ Wei, JC Denny - Genome medicine, 2015 - Springer
The convergence of two rapidly develo** technologies-high-throughput genoty** and
electronic health records (EHRs)-gives scientists an unprecedented opportunity to utilize …