Introducing dAUTObase: a first step towards the global scale geoepidemiology of autoimmune syndromes and diseases
Author(s) -
Vassiliki Gkantouna,
Manousos E. Kambouris,
Emmanouil Viennas,
Zafeiria-Marina Ioannou,
Michael Paraskevas,
George Lagoumintzis,
Zoi Zagoriti,
George P. Patrinos,
Giannis Tzimas,
Konstantinos Poulas
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu690
Subject(s) - scale (ratio) , computer science , computational biology , medicine , data science , immunology , biology , geography , cartography
An autoimmune disorder occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys its own healthy body tissues. The initiation of a geoepidemiological database, for recording autoimmune incidents with a focus to clinical manifestations, demographic parameters and geographic background is crucial to detect correlations.
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