Chia-Yen Chen, Phil H Lee, Victor M Castro, Jessica Minnier, Alexander W Charney, Eli A Stahl, Douglas M Ruderfer, Shawn N Murphy, Vivian Gainer, Tianxi Cai, Ian Jones, Carlos N Pato, Michele T Pato, Mikael Landén, Pamela Sklar, Roy H Perlis, Jordan W Smoller
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a heritable mood disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression. Although genomewide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified genetic loci contributing to BD risk, sample size has become a rate-limiting obstacle to genetic discovery. Electronic health records (EHRs) represent a vast but relatively untapped resource for high-throughput phenotyping. As part of the International Cohort Collection for Bipolar Disorder (ICCBD), we previously validated automated EHR-based phenotyping algorithms for BD against in-person diagnostic interviews (Castro et al...
April 18, 2018: Translational Psychiatry