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. 2006 Oct 7;1(6):214-9.

GCSDB: an integrated database system for the Georgia Centenarian Study

Jianliang Dai  1 , Adam Davey, Ilene C Siegler, Jonathan Arnold, Leonard W Poon
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GCSDB: an integrated database system for the Georgia Centenarian Study

Jianliang Dai et al. Bioinformation. .

Abstract

GCSDB is a web-oriented integrated database system for the Georgia Centenarian Study, a phase III, population-based, multidisciplinary study of centenarians. The Study recruited 244 centenarians and near-centenarians (age 98 and older), 80 octogenarians and 400 young controls in Northern Georgia. GCSDB incorporates more than 40 relational tables containing data about the participants including demographics, family longevity, physical health, cognition, neuropsychology, mental health, neuropathology, functional capacity, and genetics. The GCSDB web site includes detailed information about these tables and functions for genetic and other kinds of data analysis. More data and functions will be added as the study progresses. GCSDB provides a resource that could be used to identify what biological, psychological, and social factors as well as their epistatic interactions help these centenarians achieve long life.

Availability: http://qa.genetics.uga.edu (login information can be obtained from authors).

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Composite of screen displays demonstrating the homepage of GCSDB. (1) A brief introduction of The Georgia Centenarian Study Project with a link to a detailed introduction. (2) Four links to the web pages of four individual projects (see Figure 2 for Project 3). (3) Methods to cross link between four projects. The lower left-hand corner shows the example result of Principal Component Analysis, PCA
Figure 2
Figure 2
Screen display showing the web page for project 3. The page consists of the proposed project 3 research model which connects the potentially interrelated domain areas together. Clicking the domain area picture in the model brings the user to the web page for all the tables in that area
Figure 3
Figure 3
A portion of the web page for the SNPs and Demographics and Family Longevity data. (A) Information and functions provided for SNPs data analyses. (B) Information and functions provided for preliminary analyses of Demographics and Family Longevity data as well as other data
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