Analysis of disease comorbidity patterns in a large-scale China population.

Journal: BMC medical genomics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Disease comorbidity is popular and has significant indications for disease progress and management. We aim to detect the general disease comorbidity patterns in Chinese populations using a large-scale clinical data set.

Authors

  • Mengfei Guo
    School of Computer and Information Technology and Beijing Key Lab of Traffic Data Analysis and Mining, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China.
  • Yanan Yu
    School of Computer and Information Technology and Beijing Key Lab of Traffic Data Analysis and Mining, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China.
  • Tiancai Wen
    Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China.
  • Xiaoping Zhang
    China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing, 100070, China.
  • Baoyan Liu
    China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.
  • Jin Zhang
    Department of Otolaryngology, The Second People's Hospital of Yibin, Yibin, Sichuan, China.
  • Runshun Zhang
  • Yanning Zhang
  • Xuezhong Zhou
    School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.