Applying semantic web technologies for phenome-wide scan using an electronic health record linked Biobank.

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Background

The ability to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has enabled new exploration of how genetic variations contribute to health and disease etiology. However, historically GWAS have been limited by inadequate sample size due to associated costs for genotyping and phenotyping of study subjects. This has prompted several academic medical centers to form "biobanks" where biospecimens linked to personal health information, typically in electronic health records (EHRs), are collected and stored on a large number of subjects. This provides tremendous opportunities to discover novel genotype-phenotype associations and foster hypotheses generation.

Results

In this work, we study how emerging Semantic Web technologies can be applied in conjuncti

SUBMITTER: Pathak J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3554594 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature