title: Developments of geriatric autopsy database and Internet-based database of Japanese single nucleotide polymorphisms for geriatric research (JG-SNP).
abstract: To facilitate geriatric research on the roles of genetic polymorphisms of candidate genes, two databases were developed based on data obtained from autopsy examinations of elderly subjects: the geriatric autopsy database (GEAD) and the Japanese single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) database for geriatric research (JG-SNP) which is accessible on the Internet (http://www.tmgh.metro.tokyo.jp/jg-snp/english/E_top.html). The data for the GEAD were derived from 1074 consecutive autopsy cases (565 male and 509 female cases) with an average age of 80 years. The GEAD was installed on a stand-alone Windows 2000 server using Oracle 8i as the database application. The GEAD contains clinical diagnoses of 26 geriatric diseases, histories of smoking and alcohol consumption, pathological findings (720 items), severity of atherosclerosis, genetic polymorphism data, etc. On the JG-SNP website, case distribution corresponding to a specified SNP or disease can be searched or downloaded. Although there are several Internet-based SNP databases such as dbSNP, no databases are available at present on the web that contain both SNP data and phenotypic data. As autopsy studies can provide large amounts of accurate medical information, including the presence of undiagnosed diseases such as latent cancers, the GEAD is a unique and excellent database for research on genetic polymorphisms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Medical Center, 35-2 Sakae-cho, Itabashi, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan. sawabe@tmig.or.jp
authors.forename: Motoji
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sawabe
authors.forename: Tomio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kasahara
authors.forename: Yukiyoshi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Esaki
authors.forename: Ken-ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakahara
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hosoi
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Orimo
authors.forename: Kaiyo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takubo
authors.forename: Shigeo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Murayama
authors.forename: Noriko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000483:Alleles; D001344:Autopsy / Q000941:ethics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000941:ethics; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005838:Genotype; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000941:ethics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics*; D013048:Specimen Handling
chemical_list: D004247:DNA