About 80% of the disease-related BP-proteins have statistically significant association (q-value < 0.05) with at least one of 100 GAD terms in total (Additional file 4), including five terms directly associated with BP, i.e., “hypertension”, “blood pressure”, “blood pressure arterial”, “diastolic blood pressure” and “systolic blood pressure”. Here, GAD1 is linked to hypertensive disorder.