Abstract
Our aim was to identify asthmatic patients as cases, and healthy patients as controls, for genome-wide association studies (GWAS), using readily available data from electronic medical records. For GWAS, high specificity is required to accurately identify genotype-phenotype correlations. We developed two algorithms using a combination of diagnoses, medications, and smoking history. By applying stringent criteria for source and specificity of the data we achieved a 95% positive predictive value and 96% negative predictive value for identification of asthma cases and controls compared against clinician review. We achieved a high specificity but at the loss of approximately 24% of the initial number of potential asthma cases we found. However, by standardizing and applying our algorithm across multiple sites, the high number of cases needed for a GWAS could be achieved.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 497-501 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium |
Volume | 2009 |
State | Published - 2009 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)