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Phenotype

Definition
AI-generated

A phenotype is an observable characteristic or measured outcome for an individual—continuous (e.g. height), binary (case-control), ordinal, survival, or multivariate.

Topics
Epidemiology
Related
Bias Genotype Phenotype Normalization

Why it matters in GWAS

Phenotype definition, normalization, and QC drive power and interpretability; misclassification and selection on phenotype can bias genetic estimates.

Example usage

"Type 2 diabetes phenotype was defined from ICD codes with manual adjudication in a subset."

Bias Genotype Phenotype Normalization Proxy Phenotype Trait
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

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