[TERM REQUEST] DISGENET Evidence Index

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Defined in: https://disgenet.com/About#metrics

subClassOf: ratio

Definition: The "Evidence index" (EI) indicates the existence of contradictory results in publications supporting the gene/variant-disease associations. This index is computed for associations supported by text mining, and by PsyGeNET, by identifying the publications reporting a negative finding on a particular VDA or GDA. Note that only in the case of PsyGeNET, the information used to compute the EI has been validated by experts. The EI is computed as follows: EI = Npubs,+ / Npubs,total EI = 1 indicates that all the publications support the GDA or the VDA, while EI < 1 indicates that there are publications that assert that there is no association between the gene/variants and the disease. If the gene/variant has no EI value, it indicates that the index has not been computed for this association. where: Npubs,+ is the number of publication supporting an association Npubs,total is the total number of publications.