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ToppGene Suite for gene list enrichment analysis and candidate gene prioritization

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Chen, J., Bardes, E. E., Aronow, B. J., Jegga, A. G.·2009·Nucleic Acids Research

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ToppGene Suite (http://toppgene.cchmc.org; this web site is free and open to all users and does not require a login to access) is a one-stop portal for (i) gene list functional enrichment, (ii) candidate gene prioritization using either functional annotations or network analysis and (iii) identification and prioritization of novel disease candidate genes in the interactome. Functional annotation-based disease candidate gene prioritization uses a fuzzy-based similarity measure to compute the similarity between any two genes based on semantic annotations. The similarity scores from individual features are combined into an overall score using statistical meta-analysis. A P-value of each annotation of a test gene is derived by random sampling of the whole genome. The protein-protein interaction network (PPIN)-based disease candidate gene prioritization uses social and Web networks analysis algorithms (extended versions of the PageRank and HITS algorithms, and the K-Step Markov method). We demonstrate the utility of ToppGene Suite using 20 recently reported GWAS-based gene-disease associations (including novel disease genes) representing five diseases. ToppGene ranked 19 of 20 (95%) candidate genes within the top 20%, while ToppNet ranked 12 of 16 (75%) candidate genes among the top 20%.

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  • ToppGene was used to calculate p-values from hypergeometric tests, corrected for multiple comparisons.

    “ToppGene (https://toppgene.cchmc.org) portal24 was used to access an extensive list of databases, and to calculate p-values from hypergeometric tests, corrected for multiple comparisons.”

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  • Gene ontology analysis reported "regulation of cell death" as the top significantly enriched biological process for genes more highly expressed in warm-dissociated kidneys (22 genes, FDR = 1.7E−7).

    “Gene ontology analysis with ToppGene [28] reported “regulation of cell death” as the top significantly enriched biological process for the genes more highly expressed in warm-dissociated kidneys (an overlap of 22 genes, FDR = 1.7E−7, see Additional file 1).”

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Authors
Chen, J., Bardes, E. E., Aronow, B. J., & Jegga, A. G.
Affiliations
  • University of Cincinnati (US)
  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Jegga, A. G.
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2009-05-22
Volume
37
Issue
Web Server
Pages
W305-W311
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W2124649657
Cited by
2,952
References
44
Citations by year
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FWCI
17.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (1U01 DK70219, U01DK070219, P30DK078392)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
Keywords
candidate gene prioritization, protein-protein interaction network, fuzzy similarity measure, semantic annotation, PageRank, HITS algorithm, gene-disease association, genome-wide association study
MeSH terms
Animals, Disease, Genes, Humans, Proteins, Software, Internet, Protein Interaction Mapping, Mice

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