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Abel Kho

Northwestern UniversityORCID 0000-0003-1993-5634Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:electronic health records· 3 Organism:human· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:fine-mapping· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1

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Jennifer A. PachecoiD· 3 shared M. Geoffrey HayesiD· 3 shared Joshua C. DennyiD· 2 shared Rex L. ChisholmiD· 2 shared Theresa L. WalunasiD· 2 shared Yoonjung Yoonie JooiD· 2 shared Alex W. DrongiD· 1 shared André Gerardus UitterlindeniD· 1 shared

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintJun 8, 2020

Multi-ancestry Genome- and Phenome-wide Association Studies of Diverticular Disease in Electronic Health Records with Natural Language Processing enriched phenotype algorithm

Yoonjung Yoonie Joo, Jennifer A. Pacheco, William K Thompson…·M. Geoffrey Hayes

This study uses NLP to identify diverticular disease from EHRs and performs GWAS and PheWAS across multiple ancestries to find genetic risk variants and clinical associations.

DOI 10.1101/2020.06.08.138735

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BioinformaticsThe Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & MetabolismPeer-reviewedJan 9, 2020

A polygenic and phenotypic risk prediction for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome evaluated by Phenome-wide association studies

Yoonjung Yoonie Joo, Ky’Era V. Actkins, Jennifer A. Pacheco…·Corrine Kolka Welt

This study develops a polygenic and phenotypic risk score for PCOS using EHR data, showing improved detection and identifying shared metabolic and endocrine comorbidities.

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintApr 4, 2019

Concordance of Race Documented in Electronic Health Records and Genetic Ancestry

Theresa L. Walunas, Jennifer A. Pacheco, Kathryn Jackson…·Abel Kho

The paper assesses agreement between EHR-derived race and genetic ancestry, finding high concordance for European ancestry but lower for African ancestry.

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