Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

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Chapter 18: Human Disease


Web resources from Chapter 18
Website URL
National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
The Global Burden of Disease report http://www.who.int/msa/mnh/ems/dalys/intro.htm
The ICD classification system http://www.genome.ad.jp/dbget-bin/get_htext?ICD9
The WHO ICD web site http://www.who.int/whosis/icd10/index.html
The Office of Rare Diseases at the NIH http://ord.aspensys.com/asp/diseases/diseases.asp
The MeSH system at NLM http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
OMIM http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/
OMIM statistics http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/Omim/mimstats.html
The TIGR Eukaryotic Gene Ortholog (EGO) database http://www.tigr.org/tdb/tgi/ego/index.shtml
GeneCards http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/cards/
HGMD http://archive.uwcm.ac.uk/uwcm/mg/hgmd0.html
The Universal Mutation Database template http://www.umd.necker.fr/
HGVS http://ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au:80/~cotton/mdi.htm
HGVS from EMBL-EBI http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/mutations/cotton/
RettBASE at IRSA http://mecp2.chw.edu.au/
An overview of SNPs http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/get_html.cgi?whichHtml=overview
dbSNP statistics http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/snp_summary.cgi
dbSNP BLAST server http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/snpblastByChr.html
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) http://www.angis.org.au/Databases/BIRX/omia/
Homophila http://homophila.sdsc.edu/
Mouse Models for Human Disease: Mouse/Human Gene Homologs http://jaxmice.jax.org/jaxmicedb/html/sbmodel_974.shtml
The FANTOM2 database http://fantom2.gsc.riken.go.jp/supplement/disease_genes/
The Dysmorphic Human-Mouse Homology Database (DHMHD) http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/DHMHD/dysmorph.html
Transgenic mouse database http://www.rodentia.com/wmc/domain_genome.html#transgenics
The Whole Mouse Catalog http://www.rodentia.com/wmc/domain_mouse.html

 

Tables

 

Table 18-1. Web resources for sickle cell disease

Resource
NIH fact sheet
Genes and Disease (NCBI)
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America

 

Table 18-8. Central mutation databases available on the world wide web.

Site Description
GeneCards At the Weizmann Institute
HUGO Mutation Database Initiative A large list of locus specific mutation databases
Human Gene Mutation Database From the Institute of Medical Genetics in Cardiff
The Mammalian Gene Mutation Database (MGMD) database of published mutagen induced gene mutations in mammalian tissues
Sequence Variation Database project (SVD) At EBI

 

Table 18-9. Gateways to locus-specific databases.

Site Description
GeneDis From Tel Aviv University Performs pairwise alignments against a disease database
HUGO Mutation Database Initiative A huge list of locus specific mutation databases
Human Gene Mutation Database From the Institute of Medical Genetics in Cardiff
Universal Mutation Database Software and databases for mutations in human genes, from INSERM
The Mammalian Gene Mutation Database (MGMD) database of published mutagen induced gene mutations in mammalian tissues
Sequence Variation Database project (SVD) At EMBL-EBI
Gene-Specific Mutation Databases Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (Russia)

 

Table 18-10. SNP resources.

Resource Comment
dbSNP At NCBI
Human SNP database At the Whitehead Institute
The SNP Consortium (TSC) A collaboration of industrial and academic labs

 

Table 18-13. Web resources for the study of human disease at the systems level.

Resource Comment
LensGDDB Human Lens Genetic Disease Database
Retina International Four databases: protein, mutation, disease, and animal model
National Cardiovascular Disease Database  
Gastrointestinal Disease Database  
Muscular dystrophies  
MITOMAP A human mitochondrial genome database
Peroxisome Website  

 

Table 18-21. General web resources for the study of human diseases.

Site Description
Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics Karolinska Institute (Stockholm)
The Frequency of Inherited Disorders Database (FIDD) From the Institute of Medical Genetics University of Wales College of Medicine
GeneCards A database of human genes, their products and their involvement in diseases
Genes and Disease (NCBI) Organized by chromosome, provides descriptions of 60 diseases
GeneClinics A clinical information resource from the University of Washington, Seattle
Genetic Alliance international coalition of individuals, professionals and genetic support organizations
The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities  
National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) federation of voluntary health organizations dedicated to helping people with rare "orphan" diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) Over 12,000 entries

 

Table 18-22. Web resources for the study of cancer.

Resource Description
ACOR Association of Cancer Online Resources
Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology  
Cancer Chromosome Aberration Project  
The Cancer Gene Anatomy Project (CGAP) At NCBI
The Cancer Genome Project The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
CancerNet At the National Cancer Institute (NIH)
CancerWEB  
Children's Cancer Web  
Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer Relates chromosomal aberrations to tumor characteristics
Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE)  
OncoLink  

 

 

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