Danish scientists have devised a new way to connect the dots between diseases. Integrating data mining that extracts information from clinicians’ notes with protein and genetic information can reveal connections between health problems as seemingly unrelated as migraines and hair loss, or glaucoma and a hunching back, researchers report August 25 in PLoS Computational Biology.
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