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A study paradigm integrating prospective epidemiologic cohorts and electronic health records to identify disease biomarkers

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, August 2018
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Title
A study paradigm integrating prospective epidemiologic cohorts and electronic health records to identify disease biomarkers
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Nature Communications, August 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-05624-4
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Authors

Jonathan D. Mosley, QiPing Feng, Quinn S. Wells, Sara L. Van Driest, Christian M. Shaffer, Todd L. Edwards, Lisa Bastarache, Wei-Qi Wei, Lea K. Davis, Catherine A. McCarty, Will Thompson, Christopher G. Chute, Gail P. Jarvik, Adam S. Gordon, Melody R. Palmer, David R. Crosslin, Eric B. Larson, David S. Carrell, Iftikhar J. Kullo, Jennifer A. Pacheco, Peggy L. Peissig, Murray H. Brilliant, James G. Linneman, Bahram Namjou, Marc S. Williams, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Kenneth M. Borthwick, Shefali S. Verma, Jason H. Karnes, Scott T. Weiss, Thomas J. Wang, C. Michael Stein, Josh C. Denny, Dan M. Roden

Abstract

Defining the full spectrum of human disease associated with a biomarker is necessary to advance the biomarker into clinical practice. We hypothesize that associating biomarker measurements with electronic health record (EHR) populations based on shared genetic architectures would establish the clinical epidemiology of the biomarker. We use Bayesian sparse linear mixed modeling to calculate SNP weightings for 53 biomarkers from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. We use the SNP weightings to computed predicted biomarker values in an EHR population and test associations with 1139 diagnoses. Here we report 116 associations meeting a Bonferroni level of significance. A false discovery rate (FDR)-based significance threshold reveals more known and undescribed associations across a broad range of biomarkers, including biometric measures, plasma proteins and metabolites, functional assays, and behaviors. We confirm an inverse association between LDL-cholesterol level and septicemia risk in an independent epidemiological cohort. This approach efficiently discovers biomarker-disease associations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 76 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 21%
Student > Bachelor 10 13%
Researcher 9 12%
Student > Master 7 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 21 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 26%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 7%
Computer Science 3 4%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 25 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 April 2019.
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