Abstract
For the analysis of complex polygenic diseases, one does not expect all patients to share the same disease-associated alleles. Not even will disease-causing variations be assigned to the identical sets of genes between patients. However, one does expect overlaps in the sets of genes that are involved and even more so in their assigned molecular processes. Furthermore, the assignment of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to genes is highly ambiguous for intergenic SNPs. The tool presented here hence adds external information, i.e. GeneOntology (GO) terms (Gene Ontology Consortium), to the analysis of SNP data.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Bioinformatics |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 146-148 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISSN | 1367-4803 |
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| Publication status | Published - 01.01.2008 |
Funding
This work was funded by the DFG (K02250/3–1) and the EU projects KnowARC (032691) and Cardiogenics (037593). The authors thank Thomas Martinetz, Silke Szymczak and the anonymous reviewers for their support and critical reading of the manuscript.