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Taking Systems Medicine to Heart

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Trachana, Kalliopi, Bargaje, Rhishikesh, Glusman, Gustavo, Price, Nathan D., Huang, Sui, Hood, Leroy E.·2018·Circulation Research

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Systems medicine is a holistic approach to deciphering the complexity of human physiology in health and disease. In essence, a living body is constituted of networks of dynamically interacting units (molecules, cells, organs, etc) that underlie its collective functions. Declining resilience because of aging and other chronic environmental exposures drives the system to transition from a health state to a disease state; these transitions, triggered by acute perturbations or chronic disturbance, manifest as qualitative shifts in the interactions and dynamics of the disease-perturbed networks. Understanding health-to-disease transitions poses a high-dimensional nonlinear reconstruction problem that requires deep understanding of biology and innovation in study design, technology, and data analysis. With a focus on the principles of systems medicine, this Review discusses approaches for deciphering this biological complexity from a novel perspective, namely, understanding how disease-perturbed networks function; their study provides insights into fundamental disease mechanisms. The immediate goals for systems medicine are to identify early transitions to cardiovascular (and other chronic) diseases and to accelerate the translation of new preventive, diagnostic, or therapeutic targets into clinical practice, a critical step in the development of personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory (P4) medicine.

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Authors
Trachana, K., Bargaje, R., Glusman, G., Price, N. D., Huang, S., & Hood, L. E.
Affiliations
  • Institute for Systems Biology (US)
  • University of Calgary (CA)
Venue
Circulation Research
Published
2018-04-27
Volume
122
Issue
9
Pages
1276-1289
ISSN
  • 0009-7330 (ISSN-L)
  • 1524-4571
OpenAlex
W2801985397
Cited by
41
References
121
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0.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Circulation Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM109964, P50GM076547)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords
systems medicine, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, aging, biological networks, nonlinear reconstruction, disease mechanisms, P4 medicine, personalized medicine, preventive medicine, translational research
MeSH terms
Industrial Development, Cardiovascular Diseases, Chronic Disease, Diagnostic Techniques, Cardiovascular, Environmental Exposure, Forecasting, Humans, Models, Cardiovascular, Systems Analysis, Biomarkers, Disease Progression, Genomics, Early Diagnosis, Genome-Wide Association Study, Translational Research, Biomedical, Precision Medicine, In Vitro Techniques

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