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Table 3 Example of pain-related MeSH terms obtained on the basis of the cosine similarity

From: A novel method for gathering and prioritizing disease candidate genes based on construction of a set of disease-related MeSH® terms

Mesh term

MeSH category

Cosine distance

MeSH term set

    

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

Pain

C, F, G

1.000

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Pain measurement

E

0.340

 

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Nociceptors

A

0.268

  

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Pain threshold

F, G

0.259

   

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Hyperalgesia

C

0.225

    

x

x

x

x

x

x

Posterior horn cells

A

0.180

     

x

x

x

x

x

Ganglia, spinal

A

0.147

      

x

x

x

x

Injections, spinal

E

0.147

       

x

x

x

Physical stimulation

E

0.146

        

x

x

Formaldehyde

D

0.145

         

x

Recall

0.669

0.692

0.693

0.693

0.703

0.700

0.668

0.667

0.661

0.650

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