Applying family analyses to electronic health records to facilitate genetic research
Author(s) -
Xiayuan Huang,
Robert C. Elston,
Guilherme J. M. Rosa,
John Mayer,
Zhan Ye,
Terrie Kitchner,
Murray H. Brilliant,
David Page,
Scott J. Hebbring
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx569
Subject(s) - pedigree chart , health records , genotyping , computer science , genetic data , data science , throughput , data mining , genetics , biology , medicine , health care , genotype , population , telecommunications , environmental health , gene , economics , wireless , economic growth
Pedigree analysis is a longstanding and powerful approach to gain insight into the underlying genetic factors in human health, but identifying, recruiting and genotyping families can be difficult, time consuming and costly. Development of high throughput methods to identify families and foster downstream analyses are necessary.
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