Tech Talk – Exploring the Human Pathome using Real-Work Data

Tech Talk: Exploring the Human Pathome using Real-World Data

Location: CCHS or web
Date: Thu: 11/01/18 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Joseph Ycas feed your mind November 1, 2018.

Pathome-wide association scans (PWAS) offer an alternative to the conventional one-disease-at-a-time paradigm. PWAS analysis displays negative, neutral, and positive associations across all diseases simultaneously without the filter of publication bias. Densely annotated displays allow for the visualization of large-scale associations, revealing how potential biomarkers are associated with disease clusters.  A practical example is presented using a massive insurance-claims database to explore how red-cell size variation is related to the presence, onset, and risk of diseases.

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