Classification of diseases into disease categories

Dataset information

This dataset provides a mapping of diseases to disease categories. Disease categories represent disease classes defined based on disease etiology and location in the human body.

Examples include Marfan syndrome, which is a type of monogenic diseases; rheumatoid arthritis, which is a type of musculoskeletal system diseases; and liver neoplasms which is a type of cancer.

References

• Large-scale analysis of disease pathways in the human interactome. Monica Agrawal, Marinka Zitnik, and Jure Leskovec. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. 2018.
  

• Disease Ontology 2015 update: an expanded and updated database of human diseases for linking biomedical knowledge through disease data. Kibbe, Warren A., et al. Nucleic Acids Research. 2014.
  

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