Thursday, December 5, 2013

Using Electronic Medical Records to Connect Genes to Illnesses

In the new approach — called phenome-wide association studies — scientists start with a gene variant and then search among thousands of conditions for a match… The new study was carried out by scientists from a consortium of medical research institutions. Known as the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network — eMERGE for short — […]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/using-electronic-medical-records-to-connect-genes-to-illnesses/

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