With their introduction into practice over the last two decades, electronic medical records (EMRs) have become increasingly recognized as platforms to not only improve delivery of care to the individual but also to understand variability in domain such as disease presentation and outcomes or quality assurance. Coupling dense genomic information to EMRs in eMERGE has provided tools for both discovery and initial implementation in genomic medicine, while raising new challenges and opportunities for using genomic data in healthcare. These include developing and mining the large datasets necessary to identify groups of patients with extreme phenotypes or rare genotypes; identifying clinically-relevant subsets of common diseases; and identifying actionable genomic variants and determining how best to deploy these in a learning healthcare system. Building on our experience and contributions to eMERGE-I and eMERGE-II, we propose here three specific aims to address these challenges.
In Specific Aim 1, we will expand the network's phenotyping library by creating increasingly granular phenotype definitions that identify specific subsets of disease with predictable clinical courses or response to therapies. Genotype-phenotype relations will be studied by GWAS and advanced PheWAS methodology we have developed.
In Specific Aim 2, we will identify rare variants with strong associations with human traits by resequencing 100 genes in 2,500 subjects at our center as part of the eMERGE-III 25,000 patient cohort. We propose studying genes with variants known to affect human health and drug responses, and variants that our preliminary PheWAS analysis implicates as robust markers of important human phenotypes.
In Specific Aim 3, we will expand PREDICT, our pre-emptive pharmacogenomic implementation program, to develop a pipeline that will deliver actionable variants to patients and providers and to assess their response. We will collaborate across eMERGE to develop, implement, and assess tools to deliver new information, measuring impact to ensure optimal benefit to patients. By executing these discovery and implementation aims, our site and the eMERGE network will contribute importantly to advancing the vision of Genomic Medicine as a contributor to modern healthcare.

Public Health Relevance

Collectively, investigators dedicated to implementing genomic medicine for improving health have made strides using medical records and DNA information to address associations between genotypes and phenotypes like disease susceptibility and responses to treatment. Ongoing challenges - that this proposal addresses - are 1) to identify clearly actionable variants and 2) to develop optimal methods to deliver them appropriately into the flow of healthcare. In our proposal to join the eMERGE-III network, we seek actionable variants by sequencing disease genes most likely to contain rare variants with strong human trait associations identified by strategically applying EMR data-based inquiry and analysis, and we engage patients, providers, and data security expertise to expand PREDICT, our pre-emptive pharmacogenomic implementation program, for delivering actionable variants, assessing patient and provider response, and feeding results back into clinical process.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Type
Research Project--Cooperative Agreements (U01)
Project #
3U01HG008672-04S2
Application #
9894963
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZHG1)
Program Officer
Gupta, Jyoti
Project Start
2015-09-01
Project End
2020-08-31
Budget Start
2019-04-29
Budget End
2020-08-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2019
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Department
Type
DUNS #
079917897
City
Nashville
State
TN
Country
United States
Zip Code
37232
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