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Text-mining applied to autoimmune disease research: the Sjögren's syndrome knowledge base.
BMC musculoskeletal disorders - 3 Jul 2012
Gorr Sven-Ulrik, Wennblom Trevor J, Horvath Steve, Wong David T W, Michie Sara A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sjögren's syndrome is a tissue-specific autoimmune disease that affects exocrine tissues, especially salivary glands and lacrimal glands. Despite a large body of evidence gathered over the past 60 years, significant gaps still exist in our understanding of Sjögren's syndrome. The goal of this study was to develop a database that collects and organizes gene and protein expression data from the existing...
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