[Data-modeling] Additional properties to Disease/Physician

[Alec Flett]

On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Faye Li wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've added a couple of properties to existing types in the Medicine
> domain on Sandbox and they're ready for review:
>
Cool, I've been wondering when we were going to start putting more  
specific medical stuff in...

> 1) Type: "Disease or medical condition"
> New property: "Associated Genes", with expected type "Gene"
> Reverse property on type "Gene" will be "Associated Diseases" (will be
> done once I get a Biology domain admin to help)
>
> For example, Huntington Disease is associated with the hungtingtin  
> gene:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000005ead2
>
Seems like 'associated with' is vague enough that it might need extra  
annotation - perhaps this should be a CVT.. i.e. by "association", is  
it "when correlated with another gene", "when exposed to environmental  
condition X?" or "95% of the time when someone has this gene they get  
sick"?

  I'm sure this could get arbitrarily complex fast, and initially  
there wouldn't be much more than 'association' but a CVT could future- 
proof the property for later use...

Maybe you could just have an 'association type' type hanging off such  
a CVT, and see where people take it?

Alec

> Question: Would it be useful to also add a (unique?) property
> "Cytogenetic Band" (expected type "Cytogenetic Band") to the Disease
> type? And if so, would a reverse property from "Cytogenetic Band" back
> to "Disease" make sense? It would be trivial for me to add both. In  
> the
> case of "Huntington Disease", the property would point to the "Human
> Cytogenetic Band 4p16.3" topic:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000051dc7bc
>
> 2) Type: "Physician"
> New property: "Medical Specialty", with expected type "Medical  
> Specialty"
> Reverse property on type "Medical Specialty" will be "Physicians with
> this specialty"
>
> For example, Dr. Arne Torkildsen specialized in neurosurgery:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/arne_torkildsen
>
> Thanks,
> -- Faye
>
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