Biobanks and electronic medical records: enabling cost-effective research.

Bowton, Erica; Field, Julie R; Wang, Sunny; Schildcrout, Jonathan S; Van Driest, Sara L; Delaney, Jessica T; Cowan, James; Weeke, Peter et al. · Sci Transl Med · 2014

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Abstract

The use of electronic medical record data linked to biological specimens in health care settings is expected to enable cost-effective and rapid genomic analyses. Here, we present a model that highlights potential advantages for genomic discovery and describe the operational infrastructure that facilitated multiple simultaneous discovery efforts.

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