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Letter

Nature Genetics 31, 316–319 (1 July 2002) | doi:10.1038/ng895

Association of genes to genetically inherited diseases using data mining

Carolina Perez-Iratxeta , Peer Bork & Miguel A. Andrade

Although approximately one-quarter of the roughly 4,000 genetically inherited diseases currently recorded in respective databases (LocusLink, OMIM) are already linked to a region of the human genome, about 450 have no known associated gene. Finding disease-related genes requires laborious examination of hundreds of possible candidate genes (sometimes, these are not even annotated; see, for example, refs 3,4).