T. Miller-Fleming

Phenome- and laboratory-wide meta-analyses of sickle cell trait reveal multi-system disease associations

Sickle cell trait (SCT) is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for adverse health outcomes. We utilized three large US electronic health record-based biobanks (Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s BioVU, Penn Medicine Biobank, and All of Us) to conduct phenome-wide association (PheWAS) and clinical laboratory-wi...