How to Build CHD@ZJU

CHD related Articles were retrieved from Pubmed, by entering keywords "coronary heart disease" and constrict the publish date from 2000/1/1 to now (2013/1/23). As a result, totally 115898 articles were found and their abstracts were downloaded for text mining. Since some articles didn't contain abstracts, only 88396 abstracts remained.

The text-mining process to get CHD related genes could be divided in to 5 following steps:

  • 1) Extracting all keywords from abstracts and ignoring those keywords start with numbers. 101402 keywords were extracted.

  • 2) Input these keywords into Gene library in ArrayTrack and find possible related genes. 4674 genes were then found.

  • 3) Put these 4674 genes again into pubmed abstracts to find related aticles. Only genes which offical name or there keyword description (such as prolactin for gene PRL) could be found in the abstract would be remained. As a result, 1247 genes were remained.

  • 4) Manually examined on the 1247 genes to validate it was acutally related to CHD. Some genes would be filtered if it represents other meanings (such as gene CAD, Entrez ID:790, carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 2, is mostly meant coronary arterial disease in articles). 681 genes were then validated with at least one reference.

  • 5) All genes was compared with 1078 CHD genes in RGD database, and 370 genes were overlapped. These 370 genes were labels as "RGD_Supported" and the other 293 genes were labels as "REFERED". All 663 genes had supported references in CHD@ZJU which were examined by step 4.
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    Lipoprotein lipase gene polymorphism and lipid profile in coronary artery disease.
  • Author:"Duman, Belgin Susleyici;Turkoglu, Cavlan;Akpinar, Belhhan;Guden, Mustafa;Vertii, Anastassia;Dak, Esranur;Cagatay, Penbe;Gunay, Demet;Buyukdevrim, A Sevim"

  • Published Year:2004

  • Journal:Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

  • Abstract:"CONTEXT: Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) plays a central role in lipid metabolism, hydrolyzing triglyceride in chylomicrons and very-low-density lipoproteins. The PvuII polymorphic variant of LPL gene is common and might affect risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to determine whether LPL- PvuII polymorphism can be considered to be an independent risk factor or a predictor for CAD in Turkish subjects. DESIGN: We used polymerase chain reaction and restriction enzyme digestion to determine the distribution of the previously described C-->T transition that causes a PvuII polymorphism in intron 6 among healthy blood donors of Turkish origin and among angiographically confirmed CAD patients with comparable ethnic backgrounds. RESULTS: For the PvuII genotypes, within the CAD group (n = 80), the +/- genotype was found in 39 individuals (48.8%), whereas 25 (31.3%) carried the +/+ genotype, and 14 (17.5%) carried the -/- genotype. Within the control group (n = 49), the -/- genotype was found in 19 individuals (38.8%), 16 (32.7%) carried the +/- genotype, and 14 (28.6%) carried the +/+ genotype. The genotype frequency distribution was significantly different (P =.049) in the CAD and control study groups. The most frequent genotype among CAD patients was +/-; this genotype was more frequent in patients than in control subjects. However, the -/- genotype was more prevalent in the control group. Lipoprotein lipase-PvuII polymorphism was found to be associated with fasting total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels. The +/+ genotype was found to have higher levels of total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in both the CAD and control groups. CONCLUSION: There was a difference in the distribution of LPL-PvuII genotypes between the healthy subjects and the patients with CAD. Lipoprotein lipase-PvuII polymorphisms were not detected as independent risk factors for CAD in this study group, but had associations with lipid levels."

  • 10.1043/1543-2165(2004)128<869:LLGPAL>2.0.CO;2

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