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. 2008 Dec 12;37(3):771–777. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn986

Table 3.

Ontology occurrence count in sentences from the test corpus, separated by diabetes and cancer phenotypes

Gene and protein perturbations Cancer Diabetes Cancer Diabetes
Total increasing modifications 266 586 Total decreasing modifications 267 110
General increasing modifications General decreasing modifications
    Activation 66 12     Down-regulated, -ion 12 0
    Administered, -ion 7 120     Inactivation 5 0
    Dose, -age, -dependent 11 86     Inhibition 30 7
    Ectopic 7 0     Repression 1 0
    Enhanced … expression 10 0     Suppression 10 3
    Exogenous 6 23 DNA decreasing modifications
    i.c.v. 0 11     Deficiency, -ent 15 12
    i.p. 0 7     Deletion 3 2
    Increased 26 18     Dominant-negative 3 0
    Induction 8 2     Knockout 1 2
    Infused, -ion 0 35     Loss 12 13
    Injected, -ion 7 66     Mutant 0 0
    Intracerebroventricular 0 51     Mutated, -ion 0 3
    Intraperitoneal 1 16 mRNA decreasing modifications
    mg/kg,/kg 0 8     Anti(-)sense 9 3
    Oral 6 4     Interference 5 1
    Overexpressed, -ration 38 0     Interfering RNA 2 0
    Peripherally 0 7     Knockdown 12 0
    Recombinant 7 10     RNA interference 4 0
    Restoration 2 0     RNAi 2 0
    Subcutaneous 0 2     Short hairpin RNA 1 0
    Systemic 1 9     Silenced 1 0
    Treatment 24 22     siRNA 15 0
    Up-regulation 8 0 Protein decreasing modifications
DNA increasing modifications     Antagonist 7 28
    Adenoviral 2 1     Anti- 25 4
    Adenovirus 0 0     Antibody, -ies 11 3
    Gain-of-function 2 0     Blockade, -ing 12 8
    Gene delivery 1 3     Deactivation 1 0
    Transgenic 3 2     Decoy 2 0
mRNA increasing modifications     Fc- 0 0
    Inducible 2 0     Inhibitor 53 15
Protein increasing modifications     Inverse agonist 0 1
    Activator 10 0     mAbs 1 0
    Agonist 9 54     Neutralization 1 0
    Analog/analogue 2 7     Reduced … activity 1 5
    Soluble 4 0
    Targeting 6 0

Note that total increased and decreased perturbations exceeds values in Table 2 since multiple perturbation terms may appear in a single sentence.