Toward a translational medicine approach for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Cátia M. Machado, Francisco M. Couto, Alexandra R. Fernandes, Susana Santos, Ana T. Freitas

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Abstract

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a complex genetic disease characterized by a variable clinical presentation and onset, as well as a high number of associated mutations. Therefore, this disease is a good candidate for a translational medicine approach to assist in its prognosis. For this purpose, we propose a framework containing two components: one for data integration, and another for data analysis based on clinical-genetic associations obtained with data mining techniques. In this article we present the implementation of the first component. At its basis is a semantic data model developed in OWL representing the clinical and genetic data necessary for the characterization of HCM patients. This model follows a modular approach and includes mappings to controlled vocabularies such as the NCI Thesaurus and SNOMED-Clinical Terms. The development of the model has been done in collaboration with biomedical experts, who are also the providers of the data to populate it.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics
Subtitle of host publicationThird International Conference, ITBAM 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 4-5, 2012, Proceedings
EditorsChristian Böhm, Sami Khuri, Lenka Lhotská, M. Elena Renda
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages151-165
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-642-32395-9
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-32394-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Sept 2012
Event3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2012 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 4 Sept 20125 Sept 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PublisherSpringer
Volume7451 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2012
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period4/09/125/09/12

Keywords

  • clinical decision support systems
  • data integration
  • data mining
  • hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • translational medicine

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