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    • Associations of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure and the Dopamine Related Genes ANKK1 and DRD2 to Verbal Language 

      Eicher, John D.; Powers, Natalie R.; Cho, Kelly; Miller, Laura L.; Mueller, Kathryn L.; Ring, Susan M.; Tomblin, J. Bruce; Gruen, Jeffrey R. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Language impairment (LI) and reading disability (RD) are common pediatric neurobehavioral disorders that frequently co-occur, suggesting they share etiological determinants. Recently, our group identified prenatal nicotine ...
    • Dementia Coding, Workup, and Treatment in the VA New England Healthcare System 

      Cho, Kelly; Gagnon, David R.; Driver, Jane A.; Altincatal, Arman; Kosik, Nicole; Lanes, Stephan; Lawler, Elizabeth V. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)
      Growing evidence suggests that Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia are underdiagnosed and poorly documented. In our study, we describe patterns of dementia coding and treatment in the Veteran's Administration ...
    • Florbetaben PET in the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease: A Discrete Event Simulation to Explore Its Potential Value and Key Data Gaps 

      Guo, Shien; Getsios, Denis; Hernandez, Luis; Cho, Kelly; Lawler, Elizabeth Victoria; Altincatal, Arman; Lanes, Stephan; Blankenburg, Michael (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
      The growing understanding of the use of biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may enable physicians to make more accurate and timely diagnoses. Florbetaben, a beta-amyloid tracer used with positron emission tomography ...
    • High-Throughput Phenotyping With Electronic Medical Record Data Using a Common Semi-Supervised Approach (PheCAP) 

      Zhang, Yichi; Cai, Tianrun; Yu, Sheng; Cho, Kelly; Hong, Chuan; Sun, Jiehuan; Huang, Jie; Xia, Zongqi; Castro, Victor; Gagnon, David; Savova, Guergana; Churchill, Susanne; Gaziano, John; Kohane, Isaac; Cai, Tianxi; Ho, Yuk-Lam; Ananthakrishnan, Ashwin; Shaw, Stanley; Gainer, Vivian; Link, Nicholas; Honerlaw, Jacqueline; Huong, Sicong; Karlson, Elizabeth; Plenge, Robert; Szolovits, Peter; O'Donnell, Christopher; Murphy, Shawn; Liao, Katherine (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-11-20)
      Phenotypes are the foundation for clinical and genetic studies of disease risk and outcomes. The growth of biobanks linked to electronic medical record (EMR) data has both facilitated and increased the demand for efficient, ...
    • MRSA Nasal Carriage Patterns and the Subsequent Risk of Conversion between Patterns, Infection, and Death 

      Gupta, Kalpana; Martinello, Richard A.; Young, Melissa; Strymish, Judith Margery; Cho, Kelly; Lawler, Elizabeth Victoria (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Background: Patterns of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage over time and across the continuum of care settings are poorly characterized. Knowledge of prevalence rates and outcomes associated with MRSA ...