A literature based method for identifying gene-disease connections

1 January 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 1, 109-117
https://doi.org/10.1109/csb.2002.1039334

Abstract

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.

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