Online genetic databases informing human genome epidemiology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the advent of high throughput genotyping technology and the information available via projects such as the human genome sequencing and the HapMap project, more and more data relevant to the study of genetics and disease risk will be produced. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of human genome epidemiology studies rely on the ability to identify relevant studies and to obtain suitable data from these studies. A first port of call for most such reviews is a search of MEDLINE. We examined whether this could be usefully supplemented by identifying databases on the World Wide Web that contain genetic epidemiological information.

Methods

We conducted a systematic search for online databases containing genetic epidemiological information on gene prevalence or gene

SUBMITTER: Frodsham AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1929117 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature