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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    Impact of APOA5/A4/C3 genetic polymorphisms on lipid variables and cardiovascular disease risk in French men.
  • Author:"Dallongeville, Jean;Cottel, Dominique;Montaye, Michele;Codron, Valerie;Amouyel, Philippe;Helbecque, Nicole"

  • Published Year:2006

  • Journal:International journal of cardiology

  • Abstract:"OBJECTIVE: The goal of the present study was to assess the impact of 4 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of APOA5/A4/C3 gene cluster on lipid levels and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in French men. METHODS: A total of 442 men with CHD were recruited from the university hospital and compared to 475 men free of CHD from the population of the same geographical area. The APOA5 S19W, APOA5 -l2,238T>C, APOA4 T347S and APOC3 -482C>T SNPs were examined. RESULTS: The APOA5 S19W polymorphism was associated with plasma triglyceride levels. In multivariate logistic regression analyses the odds ratio (OR [95% Cl]) of hypertriglyceridemia (3rd vs. 1st tertile of triglyceride distribution) was 3.60 [1.38-9.42] in control subjects bearing at least one APOA5 19W variant. Haplotype analyses revealed a significant association between the 2111 haplotype and high triglyceride levels (+1.94 +/- 0.63 vs. 0.74 +/- 0.36 mmol/l for the 1111 haplotype p < 0.002). There was, in contrast, no significant difference in SNP distribution between CHD patients and controls. The age-adjusted OR of CHD were 1.46 [0.96-2.23], 0.79 [0.60-1.05], 0.91 [0.69-1.21] and 0.91 [0.69-l.22] in carriers of the APOA5 19W, APOA5 -12,238C, APOA4 347S and APOC3 -482T variants, respectively. There was also no significant difference in APOA5/A4/C3 haplotype distribution in patients and controls. CONCLUSION: The APOA5 19W variant is associated with increased plasma triglycerides. However, there is no evidence that APOA5 S19W, -12,238T > C, APOA4 T347S and APCC3 -482C > T SNPs are major risk factors of CHD in French men."

  • 10.1016/j.ijcard.2004.10.065

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