Abel N Kho

Summary

Affiliation: Northwestern University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Electronic medical records for genetic research: results of the eMERGE consortium
    Abel N Kho
    Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
    Sci Transl Med 3:79re1. 2011
  2. ncbi An evaluation of the NQF Quality Data Model for representing Electronic Health Record driven phenotyping algorithms
    William K Thompson
    Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
    AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2012:911-20. 2012
  3. ncbi High density GWAS for LDL cholesterol in African Americans using electronic medical records reveals a strong protective variant in APOE
    Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    Clin Transl Sci 5:394-9. 2012
  4. ncbi Use of diverse electronic medical record systems to identify genetic risk for type 2 diabetes within a genome-wide association study
    Abel N Kho
    Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 19:212-8. 2012

Detail Information

Publications4

  1. ncbi Electronic medical records for genetic research: results of the eMERGE consortium
    Abel N Kho
    Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
    Sci Transl Med 3:79re1. 2011
    ..Efforts and incentives to increase the implementation of interoperable EMRs will markedly improve the availability of clinical data for genomics research...
  2. ncbi An evaluation of the NQF Quality Data Model for representing Electronic Health Record driven phenotyping algorithms
    William K Thompson
    Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
    AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2012:911-20. 2012
    ..However, we also found areas in which the QDM could be usefully extended, such as representing information extracted from clinical text, and the ability to handle algorithms that do not consist of Boolean combinations of criteria...
  3. ncbi High density GWAS for LDL cholesterol in African Americans using electronic medical records reveals a strong protective variant in APOE
    Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    Clin Transl Sci 5:394-9. 2012
    ..Use of median LDL-C extracted from EMR after exclusions for medications and comorbidities increased the percentage of trait variance explained by genetic variation...
  4. ncbi Use of diverse electronic medical record systems to identify genetic risk for type 2 diabetes within a genome-wide association study
    Abel N Kho
    Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 19:212-8. 2012
    ..The aim of this study was to identify type 2 diabetes (T2D) cases and controls for a GWAS, using data captured through routine clinical care across five institutions using different electronic medical record (EMR) systems...