Electronic Health Records Are the Next Frontier for the Genetics of Substance Use Disorders

Sandra Sanchez-Roige; Abraham A Palmer

doi:10.1016/j.tig.2019.01.007

Electronic Health Records Are the Next Frontier for the Genetics of Substance Use Disorders

Trends Genet. 2019 May;35(5):317-318. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2019.01.007. Epub 2019 Feb 21.

Authors

Sandra Sanchez-Roige¹, Abraham A Palmer²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. Electronic address: sanchezroige@ucsd.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA; Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.

Abstract

Compared with other psychiatric disorders of similar heritabilities, the progress of substance use disorders (SUD) genetics has been slow. With the growing availability of large-scale biobanks with extensive phenotypes from electronic health records (EHR) and genotypes across millions of individuals, this platform is the next tool to accelerate SUD genetics research.

Keywords: biobanks; electronic health records; genetics; substance use disorders.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Electronic Health Records*
Genetic Association Studies
Genetic Predisposition to Disease*
Humans
Natural Language Processing
Population Surveillance*
Substance-Related Disorders / diagnosis
Substance-Related Disorders / epidemiology*
Substance-Related Disorders / genetics*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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