DEGsToDiseases {KnowSeq} | R Documentation |
The function obtains the information about what diseases are related to the DEGs indicated by parameter. For that, the function makes use of the web platforms gene2Diseases and targetValidation.
DEGsToDiseases(geneList, minCitation = 5, size = 10, method = "targetValidation")
geneList |
A list that contains the gene symbols or gene names of the DEGs. |
minCitation |
Minimum number of citations of each genes in a disease to consider the genes related with the disease. |
size |
The number of diseases to retrieve from targetValidation |
method |
The name of the desired web platform to use for the diseases download: genes2Diseases or targetValidation |
A list which contains the information about the diseases associated to each genes or to a set of genes.
diseases <- DEGsToDiseases(c("KRT19","BRCA1"))