A Literature Based Method for Identifying Gene-Disease Connections

We present a statistical method that can swiftly identify, from the literature, sets of genes known to be associated with given diseases. It offers a comprehensive way to treat alias symbols, a statistical method for computing the relevance of the gene to the query, and a novel way to disambiguate gene symbols from other abbreviations. The method is illustrated by finding genes related to breast cancer.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: CSB
• Authors: Lada A. Adamic, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman, Eytan Adar
• Keywords: Bioinformatics, Comprehensive Way, CSB 2002, Gene Symbols, Statistical Method