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VUMC to Lead Pilot Program for Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program  President Obama and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins announced today that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will lead the Direct Volunteers Pilot Studies under the first grant to be awarded in the federal Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program.

Neanderthal DNA has subtle but significant impact on human traits

February 12, 2016

Neanderthal DNA has subtle but significant impact on human traits  Since 2010 scientists have known that people of Eurasian origin have inherited anywhere from 1 to 4 percent of their DNA from Neanderthals. In a study published in Science, Tony Capra and Corinne Simonti used phenome-wide association studies to study the impact of Neanderthal alleles on human phenotypes in the eMERGE Network.

Warner named medical director of Cancer Registry

February 11, 2016

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/02/11/warner-named-medical-director-of-cancer-registry/

AMIA 2015 NLP Application Tutorial

November 15, 2015

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AMIA 2015 NLP Application Tutorial Below are the slides from the AMIA 2015 NLP Tutorial. Josh Denny: NLP applied to EHR phenotyping and medical education: josh amia NLP tutorial 2015.pdf Hua Xu: Introduction to pipeline NLP and Clinical Language Annotation, Modeling, and Processing Toolkit (CLAMP)

Data diving for health

September 23, 2015

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/09/23/data-diving-for-health/