Genetic Association Database Summary

The Genetic Association Database is an archive of human genetic association studies of complex diseases and disorders. The goal of the database is to allow the user to rapidly identify medically relevant polymorphism from the large volume of polymorphism and mutational data, in the context of standardized nomenclature.

The data included are from published scientific papers. Study data are recorded in the context of official human gene nomenclature with additional molecular reference numbers and links. The information is presented as gene-centred. That is, each record is (a record) of a gene or marker. If a study investigated 6 genes for a particular disorder, there will be 6 records.

An advanced search of the database allows searching of one or more fields such as phenotype, disease class, chromosome, chromosome band, official gene symbol, gene name or gene comment, DNA position, SNP Ids, strength of association, references, allele author description or functional effects, polymorphism class, population, study size, submitter, Entrez gene ID, OMIM ID, Unigene cluster number, Ensembl, presence of association, reference details, or alternative gene ID.

Results are returned as a table with each study representing a line on the table. Details are returned for each of possible fields detailed above. Links are also provided to Gene Expert and Disease Expert which link to specialist databases and /or experts in the field. Further links are provided to BBID, PubMed, Entrez Gene, Gene Cards, SNP resources, genomic sequence viewing resources such as Ensembl, and Mapview, HapMap, Reference sequences, GDPinfo, and ASAP @ UCLA.

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  Related websites: Main HuGENet site | Greece Coordinating Centre | Canada Coordinating Centre