Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs.

ABSTRACT: The majority of diseases that are a significant challenge for public and individual heath are caused by a combination of hereditary and environmental factors. In this paper we introduce Lineage, a novel visual analysis tool designed to support domain experts who study such multifactorial diseases in the context of genealogies. Incorporating familial relationships between cases with other data can provide insights into shared genomic variants and shared environmental exposures that may be implicated in such diseases. We introduce a data and task abstraction, and argue that the problem of analyzing such diseases based on genealogical, clinical, and genetic data can be mapped to a multivariate graph visualization problem. The main contribution of our design study is a novel visual representat

SUBMITTER: Nobre C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6170727 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature