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 …

Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries

A Mishra, R Malik, T Hachiya, T Jürgenson, S Namba… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of stroke—the second leading cause of
death worldwide—were conducted predominantly in populations of European ancestry …

Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction

R Karlsson Linnér, TT Mallard, PB Barr… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Behaviors and disorders related to self-regulation, such as substance use, antisocial
behavior and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, are collectively referred to as …

Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses define core cell types, genes and targetable mechanisms for kidney disease

H Liu, T Doke, D Guo, X Sheng, Z Ma, J Park, HMT Vy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
More than 800 million people suffer from kidney disease, yet the mechanism of kidney
dysfunction is poorly understood. In the present study, we define the genetic association with …

A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder

EC Johnson, D Demontis, TE Thorgeirsson… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Variation in liability to cannabis use disorder has a strong genetic component
(estimated twin and family heritability about 50–70%) and is associated with negative …

Trans-ethnic and ancestry-specific blood-cell genetics in 746,667 individuals from 5 global populations

MH Chen, LM Raffield, A Mousas, S Sakaue… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Most loci identified by GWASs have been found in populations of European ancestry (EUR).
In trans-ethnic meta-analyses for 15 hematological traits in 746,667 participants, including …

Association of telomere length with risk of disease and mortality

CV Schneider, KM Schneider, A Teumer… - JAMA internal …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Telomeres protect DNA from damage. Because they shorten with each mitotic
cycle, leukocyte telomere length (LTL) serves as a mitotic clock. Reduced LTL has been …

Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and use disorder in 274,424 individuals from multiple populations

HR Kranzler, H Zhou, RL Kember… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Alcohol consumption level and alcohol use disorder (AUD) diagnosis are moderately
heritable traits. We conduct genome-wide association studies of these traits using …

[HTML][HTML] Map** ICD-10 and ICD-10-CM codes to phecodes: workflow development and initial evaluation

P Wu, A Gifford, X Meng, X Li, H Campbell… - JMIR medical …, 2019 - medinform.jmir.org
Background: The phecode system was built upon the International Classification of
Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) for phenome-wide association …