@conference {ICBO_2018_13,
	title = {ICBO_2018_13: The Identity and Mereology of Pathological Dispositions},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)},
	series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)},
	year = {2018},
	month = {08/06/2018},
	publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology},
	organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology},
	abstract = {<p>Diseases, risks of pathological processes and predispositions have been formalized as dispositions. The relations between those pathological dispositions, however, remain unclear. We apply here a recently developed theory of mereology and identity among dispositions to analyze such relations. In particular, we show how a framework for the identity of disposition leads to a disease being not only a disposition to a disease course, but also to each pathological process; how it avoids risk multiplicativism; and how a predisposition can be identified with a risk whose estimated probability is higher than for the risk of a reference class. We discuss how this makes predisposition always relative to a reference class, to a time-frame and to sources of risk estimates; and we clarify the nature of risk factors.</p>
},
	keywords = {disease, disposition, identity, mereology, predisposition, risk, risk factor},
	url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_13.pdf},
	author = {Adrien Barton and Olivier Grenier and Jean-Francois Ethier}
}
