Patent Document ID: 8078407
Application ID: 09496893
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for generating groups of individuals useful in researching influence of a disease on said individuals, comprising: selecting individuals having a risk factor for a disease; providing to each individual a communications apparatus; transmitting a computer program containing queries and predefined response choices to said communications apparatus, wherein said computer program when executed causes said communications apparatus to present said queries and predefined response choices to each individual via a display of said communications apparatus and collect responses to said queries, including at least one of the predefined response choices presented on the display of the communications apparatus, from each individual via user input buttons of the communications apparatus; receiving said responses to the queries from the individuals through the communications apparatus, said responses communicating information about the individuals; storing the responses of each individual in a database; defining a plurality of groups by categorizing the individuals having similar profiles based on the responses, wherein categorizing the individuals into groups includes one or more phenotypic classifications; after defining said groups, receiving genotype information representative of individuals in each of said groups; comparing said genotype information between said groups; and generating a report for presentation on a display that represents a subset of said genotype information associated with each of said groups, wherein differences in said genotype information between said groups is expressed in terms of phenotypic classifications.