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Table 1 Rediscovery of five classic LBD findings by Swanson and Smalheiser, using SKiM

From: Serial KinderMiner (SKiM) discovers and annotates biomedical knowledge using co-occurrence and transformer models

A term

Cutoff date

Phenotype or symptom (B)

A–B p-value

Swanson–Smalheiser discovery (C)

B–C p-value

B–C prediction score rank

Raynaud’s

1985

Blood viscosity

2 × 10–33

Dietary fish oil

5 × 10–10

462

Migraine

1987

Seizures

6 × 10–24

Magnesium

7 × 10–36

822

Depression

2 × 10–36

2 × 10–18

Muscle spasms

7 × 10–21

3 × 10–12

Tension

6 × 10–106

1 × 10–7

Alzheimer’s

1995

Normal gait

5 × 10–280

Indomethacin

5 × 10–229

253

Onset

5 × 10–128

9 × 10–38

Depression

4 × 10–96

5 × 10–14

Central nervous system disease

3 × 10–50

4 × 10–6

Alzheimer’s

1995

Normal gait

5 × 10–280

Estrogen

0

95

Depression

4 × 10–96

0

Onset

5 × 10–128

9 × 10–286

Dermal atrophy

3 × 10–127

8 × 10–43

Central nervous system disease

3 × 10–50

3 × 10–11

Somatomedin C

1989

Normal gait

2 × 10–192

Arginine

0

246

Paraganglioma

2 × 10–33

0

Glucose intolerance

5 × 10–65

0

Cognitive abnormality

4 × 10–32

0

  1. SKiM successfully rediscovers five of Swanson and Smalheiser’s discoveries when it is only allowed to search abstracts published prior to each of the original discoveries