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SynthesisScientific reports2015

Mapping the Relationship of Contributing Factors for Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease.

Lin Shi, Lei Zhao, Adrian Wong, Defeng Wang, Vincent Mok

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Synthesis in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lin ShiDepartment of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR.
Lei ZhaoDepartment of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR.
Adrian WongDepartment of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR.
Defeng WangDepartment of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR.
Vincent MokDepartment of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While detecting and validating correlations among the contributing factors to the preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease (pAD) has been a focus, a potent meta-analysis method to integrate current findings is essential. The entity-relationship diagram with nodes as entities and edges as relationships is a graphical representation that summarizes the relationships among multiple factors in an intuitive manner. Based on this concept, a new meta-analysis approach with this type of diagram is proposed to summarize research about contributing factors of pAD and their interactions. To utilize the information for enriched visualization, width and color of the edges are encoded with reporting times, number of pAD subjects, correlation coefficient, and study design (cross-sectional or longitudinal). The proposed Probabilistic Entity-Relationship Diagram (PERD) demonstrated its effectiveness in this research for studying pAD. Another kind of diagram with occurrence order for some factors was also proposed to provide sequential information of the factors. In addition, PERD could potentially develop into an online application named PERD-online, which would help researchers to pool findings on the same relationships and guide further tests to validate uncertain relationships in PERD. PERD as a generic graphical meta-analysis tool can also be applied in studying other multifactorial diseases.

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Alzheimer DiseaseBiomarkersCross-Sectional StudiesHumansLongitudinal StudiesBiomarkers

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PMID26190794
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