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Table 4 Conversion of typical disease names to UDS

From: A universal diagnosis syntax

Typical disease name

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Wilson’s disease

ATP7B gene mutation

1.hepatocyte lysis, hypoplasia and hyposecretion

2.iris edge

3.lenticular nucleus degeneration and hypofunction

1.IR4, cirrhosisa, metabolic pathogenesis (hypoceruloplasminemia, hypoalbuminemia, hyperbilirubinemia, …

2.Copper precipitate

3.Neural pathways

Huntington's disease

dominant huntingtin gene hyperconcatenation of cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) repeats

1.striatal degeneration and atrophy

2.hypocognition, 3.psychosis, compulsions,

aggression,…

4.Huntingtin with > 36 glutamine residues 

1.cortical brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) depletion

2a. dyskinesia

2b. late behavioral hypoactivity

multiple sclerosis

1.essential

2.Epstein-Barr virus

Central nervous demyelination and nerve cell hypofunction

IR4a

  1. aImmune reaction type 4 characterized by lymphocyte infiltration