VESPA - Vanderbilt Electronic Systems for Pharmacogenomic Assessment

Autoimmune Disease Phenotype

Autoimmune diseases (AID) refer to destructive conditions involving an aberrant chronic activation of the adaptive immune system, where the immune cells instead of producing antibodies to attack foreign invaders, mistakenly attack the body’s own healthy cells.  While autoimmune diseases are heterogeneous according to symptoms, lesion types, and prognosis, and are usually studied in isolation according to groups based on organ system; various autoimmunity diseases share similar immune effector mechanisms.  Recent genetic studies suggest that many autoimmune and chronic autoinflammatory condi

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Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as an abnormality of kidney structure or function present for longer than 3 months. CKD can occur as a result of heterogeneous disorders affecting the kidney. In the United States, an estimated 13.6% of adults have CKD. Notably, adjusted mortality rates are higher for patients with CKD than those without, and rates increase with CKD stage. The purpose of this algorithm is to enable accurate CKD diagnosis and staging based on EHR data.

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Clopidogrel Poor Metabolizers

Note: Attached documents contain full case definition and two different control definitions.  One is for controls with 2 years of follow up, the other for controls with 1 year of follow up.  All available controls with 2 years of follow up were used in Vanderbilt's study.  The control population was supplemented by controls with only 1 year of follow up.  At the time of study, many of the available controls had experienced their qualifying events somewhat recently and 2 years had not yet passed for full follow up.

 

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Peanut Allergy

Food allergy is defined as an immune response that occurs reproducibly to a given food, typically an immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated clinical reaction to specific protein epitopes.  Over the last 20-30 years, food allergy has grown into a major public health problem.  Peanut allergy is a common type of food allergy that accounts for a disproportionate number of fatal and near-fatal anaphylactic events amongst all the common food allergens.

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Warfarin dose/response

This algorithm identifies patients who have a stable within-range INR (assuming a target INR of 2-3) over at least a three week period and correlates with their warfarin weekly dose.  It is used to identify pharmacogenetics behind warfarin stable dose.

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