Journal
HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
Volume 29, Issue R1, Pages R33-R42Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa192
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- Seaver Foundation
- National Institute of Mental Health [R01MH121923]
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The 'discovery' stage of genome-wide association studies required amassing large, homogeneous cohorts. In order to attain clinically useful insights, we must now consider the presentation of disease within our clinics and, by extension, within our medical records. Large-scale use of electronic health record (EHR) data can help to understand phenotypes in a scalable manner, incorporating lifelong and whole-phenome context. However, extending analyses to incorporate EHR and biobank-based analyses will require careful consideration of phenotype definition. Judgements and clinical decisions that occur 'outside' the system inevitably contain some degree of bias and become encoded in EHR data. Any algorithmic approach to phenotypic characterization that assumes non-biased variables will generate compounded biased conclusions. Here, we discuss and illustrate potential biases inherent within EHR analyses, how these may be compounded across time and suggest frameworks for large-scale phenotypic analysis to minimize and uncover encoded bias.
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