Lossless integration of multiple electronic health records for identifying pleiotropy using summary statistics

Thus far, pleiotropy analysis using individual-level Electronic Health Records data has been limited to data from one site. Here, the authors introduce Sum-Share, a method designed to efficiently and losslessly integrate EHR and genetic data from multiple sites to perform pleiotropy analysis.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ruowang Li, Rui Duan, Xinyuan Zhang, Thomas Lumley, Sarah Pendergrass, Christopher Bauer, Hakon Hakonarson, David S. Carrell, Jordan W. Smoller, Wei-Qi Wei, Robert Carroll, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Georgia Wiesner, Patrick Sleiman, Josh C. Denny, Jonathan D. Mosley, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Yong Chen, Jason H. Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20211-2