Title
Applying family analyses to electronic health records to facilitate genetic research.
Abstract
Motivation: 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. Results: This paper describes simple methods that allowed us to identify 173 368 family pedigrees with high probability using basic demographic data available in most electronic health records (EHRs). We further developed and validate a novel statistical method that uses EHR data to identify families more likely to have a major genetic component to their diseases risk. Lastly, we showed that incorporating EHR-linked family data into genetic association testing may provide added power for genetic mapping without additional recruitment or genotyping. The totality of these results suggests that EHR-linked families can enable classical genetic analyses in a high-throughput manner.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1093/bioinformatics/btx569
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Computer science,Bioinformatics
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1367-4803
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiayuan Huang100.34
Robert C. Elston2898.57
Guilherme J. Rosa300.34
John Mayer461.63
Zhan Ye501.69
terrie kitchner6181.65
Murray Brilliant721.05
David Page853361.12
Scott J. Hebbring901.69