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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Polubriaginof FCG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015747 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cell 20180517 7
Heritability is essential for understanding the biological causes of disease but requires laborious patient recruitment and phenotype ascertainment. Electronic health records (EHRs) passively capture a wide range of clinically relevant data and provide a resource for studying the heritability of traits that are not typically accessible. EHRs contain next-of-kin information collected via patient emergency contact forms, but until now, these data have gone unused in research. We mined emergency co ...[more]