A genome-wide association study of red blood cell traits using the electronic medical record.

The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is a potential source for high throughput phenotyping to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS), including those of medically relevant quantitative traits. We describe use of the Mayo Clinic EMR to conduct a GWAS of red blood cell (RBC) traits in a cohort...

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Main Authors: Iftikhar J Kullo, Keyue Ding, Hayan Jouni, Carin Y Smith, Christopher G Chute
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2946914?pdf=render