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 groupings of Electronic Health Record (EHR) billing codes for
their ability to represent clinically meaningful phenotypes and to replicate known genetic …

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 …

Electronic medical records for genetic research: results of the eMERGE consortium

AN Kho, JA Pacheco, PL Peissig… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
Clinical data in electronic medical records (EMRs) are a potential source of longitudinal
clinical data for research. The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network …

Using electronic health records to generate phenotypes for research

SA Pendergrass, DC Crawford - Current protocols in human …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electronic health records contain patient‐level data collected during and for clinical care.
Data within the electronic health record include diagnostic billing codes, procedure codes …

Validation of electronic medical record-based phenotyping algorithms: results and lessons learned from the eMERGE network

KM Newton, PL Peissig, AN Kho… - Journal of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background Genetic studies require precise phenotype definitions, but electronic medical
record (EMR) phenotype data are recorded inconsistently and in a variety of formats …

The electronic medical records and genomics (eMERGE) network: past, present, and future

O Gottesman, H Kuivaniemi, G Tromp, WA Faucett… - Genetics in …, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network is a National Human
Genome Research Institute–funded consortium engaged in the development of methods …

PheWAS: demonstrating the feasibility of a phenome-wide scan to discover gene–disease associations

JC Denny, MD Ritchie, MA Basford, JM Pulley… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Emergence of genetic data coupled to longitudinal electronic medical records
(EMRs) offers the possibility of phenome-wide association scans (PheWAS) for disease …

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 …

PheWAS and beyond: the landscape of associations with medical diagnoses and clinical measures across 38,662 individuals from Geisinger

A Verma, A Lucas, SS Verma, Y Zhang… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Most phenome-wide association studies (PheWASs) to date have used a small to moderate
number of SNPs for association with phenotypic data. We performed a large-scale single …

Robust replication of genotype-phenotype associations across multiple diseases in an electronic medical record

MD Ritchie, JC Denny, DC Crawford… - The American Journal of …, 2010 - cell.com
Large-scale DNA databanks linked to electronic medical record (EMR) systems have been
proposed as an approach for rapidly generating large, diverse cohorts for discovery and …