Thursday, May 17, 2018

Emergency contact info helps researchers branch out family tree

A collaborative team of researchers from three major academic medical centers in New York City is showing that emergency contact information, which is included in individuals’ electronic health records (EHRs), can be used to generate family trees. Those family trees in turn can be used to study heritability in hundreds of medical conditions.



from Top Health News – ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2Ix1v41
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