Gene Information

Gene Symbol

This is the official gene symbol as defined by NCBI Locus Link.

Gene Name

Official Gene Name as found in Locus Link.

Alt Names

Alternative gene names as defined by Stanford SOURCE database.

Chr.

Human Chromosome #

Chr-Band

Chromosomal band as defined

by NCBI Locus Link.

DNA position

This is the gene position on the human genome sequence as defined by UCSC Golden Path. Build: Human June 2002. This is the beginning gene position.

Locus Link number

Numerical Only. This is the Locus Link number for the gene as defined by NCBI Locus Link.

Unigene Cluster number

This is the Unigene number (Hs.NNNN) as found at the bottom of| the NCBI Locus Link page for that gene.

Rep Seq

This field is a representative sequence for this gene.

Study Information

Broad Phenotype (Disease)

This is the general disease or phenotypic classification.

Narrow Phenotype

This is for sub-phenotype, endo-phenotype, locus specific phenotype, or molecular phenotype.

Disease Class

There are 17 disease classes defined currently: aging,cancer,cardiovascular,chemdependency,developmental,hematological,immune,infection,metabolic,mitochondrial,neurological,normalvariation,pharmacogenomic,psych,renal,reproduction,vision,other (if the disease does not belong to any of the 17 disease classes) or unknown (if the author did not identify a disease class). (

Assoc? YorN

This is a simple yes or no. In the paper, is the gene associated with a phenotype (Y) or a lack of association (N). GAD will display nothing (Null) if the author did not specify either way.

P-value

The best P-value for that allele. There may be a number of P-values under different assumptions or models. We are looking for the best P-value.

Reference

The full reference for the study

PubMed ID

The PubMed unique identifier number (UID number). This number is embedded in the URL for the abstract in PubMed. For example, the PubMed IUD is 12438686 for the following entry.... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12438686&dopt=Abstract

Population

The ethnic group of the study.

Study size Cases

Generally, the patient class. Many studies(not all) will be case-control studies. Study size A is for the patients. If this exactly doesn't apply, do your best.

Study Size Controls

Generally, the control class. Many studies (not all) will be case-control studies. Study size B is for the controls. If this exactly doesn't apply, do your best.

Total study size

The patients and controls added together.

PCR protocol

Short text description of the PCR protocol used for that allele.

Polymorphism class

General class of polymorphism.

Allele (Authors description)

This is a text description of the allele under study in the author's own words.