A Genome-Wide Association Study of Red Blood Cell Traits Using the Electronic Medical Record
PLoS ONEPublished 28 September 2010Open access
Iftikhar J. Kullo, Keyue Ding, Hayan Jouni, Carin Y. Smith, Christopher G. Chute
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Feelings of feasibility of using the EMR to conduct high throughput genomic studies of medically relevant quantitative traits of red blood cell (RBC) traits in a cohort of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and controls without PAD are demonstrated.
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Our results demonstrate feasibility of using the EMR to conduct high throughput genomic studies of medically relevant quantitative traits.
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