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GPEM
2007
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Genomic mining for complex disease traits with "random chemistry"
Our rapidly growing knowledge regarding genetic variation in the human genome offers great potential for understanding the genetic etiology of disease. This, in turn, could revolut...
Margaret J. Eppstein, Joshua L. Payne, Bill C. Whi...
BMCBI
2007
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Improved human disease candidate gene prioritization using mouse phenotype
Background: The majority of common diseases are multi-factorial and modified by genetically and mechanistically complex polygenic interactions and environmental factors. High-thro...
Jing Chen, Huan Xu, Bruce J. Aronow, Anil G. Jegga
BMCBI
2006
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Whole genome association mapping by incompatibilities and local perfect phylogenies
Background: With current technology, vast amounts of data can be cheaply and efficiently produced in association studies, and to prevent data analysis to become the bottleneck of ...
Thomas Mailund, Søren Besenbacher, Mikkel H...
BMCBI
2006
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SNPs3D: Candidate gene and SNP selection for association studies
Background: The relationship between disease susceptibility and genetic variation is complex, and many different types of data are relevant. We describe a web resource and databas...
Peng Yue, Eugene Melamud, John Moult
BMCBI
2008
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An integrated database-pipeline system for studying single nucleotide polymorphisms and diseases
Background: Studies on the relationship between disease and genetic variations such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are important. Genetic variations can cause disease b...
Jin Ok Yang, Sohyun Hwang, Jeongsu Oh, Jong Bhak, ...
BMCBI
2008
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Exhaustive prediction of disease susceptibility to coding base changes in the human genome
Background: Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most abundant form of genomic variation and can cause phenotypic differences between individuals, including diseases. Ba...
Vinayak Kulkarni, Mounir Errami, Robert Barber, Ha...
BMCBI
2008
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Assessment of disease named entity recognition on a corpus of annotated sentences
Background: In recent years, the recognition of semantic types from the biomedical scientific literature has been focused on named entities like protein and gene names (PGNs) and ...
Antonio Jimeno-Yepes, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz,...
BMCBI
2008
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Function2Gene: A gene selection tool to increase the power of genetic association studies by utilizing public databases and expe
Background: Many common disorders have multiple genetic components which convey increased susceptibility. SNPs have been used to identify genetic components which are associated w...
Don L. Armstrong, Chaim O. Jacob, Raphael Zidovetz...
BMCBI
2007
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Genome bioinformatic analysis of nonsynonymous SNPs
Background: Genome-wide association studies of common diseases for common, low penetrance causal variants are underway. A proportion of these will alter protein sequences, the mos...
David F. Burke, Catherine L. Worth, Eva-Maria Prie...
BMCBI
2008
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Multi-agent systems in epidemiology: a first step for computational biology in the study of vector-borne disease transmission
Background: Computational biology is often associated with genetic or genomic studies only. However, thanks to the increase of computational resources, computational models are ap...
Benjamin Roche, Jean-François Guégan...