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ArticleGenome medicine2012

Inferring novel gene-disease associations using Medical Subject Heading Over-representation Profiles.

Warren A Cheung, Bf Francis Ouellette, Wyeth W Wasserman

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Article in Genome medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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Warren A CheungBioinformatics Graduate Program, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the Child and Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, 980 W. 28th Ave, Vancouver, V5Z 4H4, Canada.
Bf Francis OuelletteDepartment of Cells and Systems Biology, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, University of Toronto, 101 College Street, Toronto, M5G 0A3, Canada.
Wyeth W WassermanDepartment of Medical Genetics, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the Child and Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, 980 W. 28th Ave, Vancouver, V5Z 4H4, Canada.

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Computational Resources for the Compilation and Distribution of Transcription FacR01GM084875 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA · PI WASSERMAN, WYETH W · 2010 to 2012
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084875
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMEDLINE(®)/PubMed(®) currently indexes over 18 million biomedical articles, providing unprecedented opportunities and challenges for text analysis. Using Medical Subject Heading Over-representation Profiles (MeSHOPs), an entity of interest can be robustly summarized, quantitatively identifying associated biomedical terms and predicting novel indirect associations.

methodsA procedure is introduced for quantitative comparison of MeSHOPs derived from a group of MEDLINE(®) articles for a biomedical topic (for example, articles for a specific gene or disease). Similarity scores are computed to compare MeSHOPs of genes and diseases.

resultsSimilarity scores successfully infer novel associations between diseases and genes. The number of papers addressing a gene or disease has a strong influence on predicted associations, revealing an important bias for gene-disease relationship prediction. Predictions derived from comparisons of MeSHOPs achieves a mean 8% AUC improvement in the identification of gene-disease relationships compared to gene-independent baseline properties.

conclusionsMeSHOP comparisons are demonstrated to provide predictive capacity for novel relationships between genes and human diseases. We demonstrate the impact of literature bias on the performance of gene-disease prediction methods. MeSHOPs provide a rich source of annotation to facilitate relationship discovery in biomedical informatics.

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