Challenges in the association of human single nucleotide polymorphism mentions with unique database identifiers

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Examples of mentions which may refer to a variation or a different concept.

Abbreviation	Alternative concept	Frequency
C3H	Zinc finger protein ZF	25,241
E2F	Transcription Factor	11,796
H2S	Hydrogen sulfide H₂S	3,726
T47D	Breast cancer cell line	2,902
L5178Y	L5178Y mouse lymphoma cells	2,736
T1D	Type 1 diabetes	2,731
T98G	Human glioblastoma cell line	1,244
H295R	Adrenocortical carcinoma cell line	637
P4501A	Cytochrome P4501A	485

Frequency is the occurrence of abbreviations over all MEDLINE abstracts. Query performed 2009/01/21.

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