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Pan H, Bakalov V, Cox L, Engle ML, Erickson SW, Feolo M, Guo Y, Huggins W, Hwang S, Kimura M, Krzyzanowski M, Levy J, Phillips M, Qin Y, Williams D, Ramos EM, Hamilton CM. Identifying Datasets for Cross-Study Analysis in dbGaP using PhenX. Sci Data 2022; 9:532. [PMID: 36050327 PMCID: PMC9434066 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01660-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Identifying relevant studies and harmonizing datasets are major hurdles for data reuse. Common Data Elements (CDEs) can help identify comparable study datasets and reduce the burden of retrospective data harmonization, but they have not been required, historically. The collaborative team at PhenX and dbGaP developed an approach to use PhenX variables as a set of CDEs to link phenotypic data and identify comparable studies in dbGaP. Variables were identified as either comparable or related, based on the data collection mode used to harmonize data across mapped datasets. We further added a CDE data field in the dbGaP data submission packet to indicate use of PhenX and annotate linkages in the future. Some 13,653 dbGaP variables from 521 studies were linked through PhenX variable mapping. These variable linkages have been made accessible for browsing and searching in the repository through dbGaP CDE-faceted search filter and the PhenX variable search tool. New features in dbGaP and PhenX enable investigators to identify variable linkages among dbGaP studies and reveal opportunities for cross-study analysis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Huaqin Pan
- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
| | | | - Lisa Cox
- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
| | | | | | - Michael Feolo
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- GeneCentric Therapeutics Inc., Durham, NC, USA
| | | | | | - Masato Kimura
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | | | - Josh Levy
- Levy Informatics, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | | | - Ying Qin
- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
| | | | - Erin M Ramos
- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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