getOMIM {biomaRt}R Documentation

Retrieves OMIM information

Description

This function retrieves OMIM information from Ensemble given a gene identifier

Usage

getOMIM( id = NULL, type = NULL, array = NULL, mart = NULL)

Arguments

id gene identifier
type type of identifier, value should be either affy, entrezgene, embl, hugo, ensembl or refseq
array array identifier only to be used if gene identifiers are from affy arrays. An overview of the accepted identifiers can be obtained with the function: getAffyArrays()
mart object of class Mart, containing connections to the BioMart databases. You can creat such an object using the function martConnect.

Author(s)

Steffen Durinck, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck

See Also

Examples

## Not run: 
mart <- martConnect()

#example using affy id

getOMIM( id = "1939_at", array = "hg_u95av2", mart = mart)

#example using locuslink id

getOMIM( id = 672, type = "entrezgene", mart = mart)

martDisconnect(mart = mart)
## End(Not run)

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