Chunk #30 — Construction and content — Generation of a candidate gene list for a disease

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SNPs3D: candidate gene and SNP selection for association studies.

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where 'Count_abstracts(D, KW)' is the number of abstracts for disease 'D' containing the keyterm 'KW', and 'Total_abstracts(KW)' is the total number of abstracts containing the keyterm. A pseudo count of 50 is added to reduce noise. The top ranking 40 keyterms are selected, providing Rank(KW) is at least 0.1.