Chunk #51 — Utility — Gene-gene relationships

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SNPs3D: candidate gene and SNP selection for association studies.

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Figure 4 shows the distributions of the number of gene links, for monogenic disease (defined by inclusion in the HGMD database [1] and all genes. Disease genes tend to be linked to more genes than non-disease genes, reflecting the fact that they are usually well studied, and have been placed in a network context.