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Improved human disease candidate gene prioritization using mouse phenotype

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Chen, Jing, Xu, Huan, Aronow, Bruce J, Jegga, Anil G·2007·BMC Bioinformatics

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Background: The majority of common diseases are multi-factorial and modified by genetically and mechanistically complex polygenic interactions and environmental factors. High-throughput genome-wide studies like linkage analysis and gene expression profiling, tend to be most useful for classification and characterization but do not provide sufficient information to identify or prioritize specific disease causal genes. Results: Extending on an earlier hypothesis that the majority of genes that impact or cause disease share membership in any of several functional relationships we, for the first time, show the utility of mouse phenotype data in human disease gene prioritization. We study the effect of different data integration methods, and based on the validation studies, we show that our approach, ToppGene http://toppgene.cchmc.org , outperforms two of the existing candidate gene prioritization methods, SUSPECTS and ENDEAVOUR. Conclusion: The incorporation of phenotype information for mouse orthologs of human genes greatly improves the human disease candidate gene analysis and prioritization.

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  • Hep-IDCONNECT transcription factor-encoding genes are linked to abnormal liver phenotypes and metabolic functions, albeit less significantly than Hep-ID transcription factors.

    “mining genes associated with phenotypes from the Mammalian Phenotype Ontology resource (Smith et al, 2005; Chen et al, 2007) revealed that, albeit less significant when compared to Hep‐ID TFs, Hep‐IDCONNECT TF‐encoding genes are linked to abnormal liver phenotypes and metabolic functions (Fig 2G).”

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Authors
Chen, J., Xu, H., Aronow, B. J., & Jegga, A. G.
Affiliations
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Jegga, Anil G
Venue
BMC Bioinformatics
Published
2007-10-16
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
392-392
ISSN
1471-2105 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2128245545
Cited by
284
References
42
Citations by year
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FWCI
4.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
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  • BMC Bioinformatics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
National Cancer Institute (U01 CA84291-07, UO1 CA84291-07, CA84291, U01CA084291, CA84291-07)
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, human disease genes, mouse phenotypes, mouse orthologs, data integration, polygenic disease
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Animals, Chromosome Mapping, Humans, Phenotype, Species Specificity, Linkage Disequilibrium, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mice

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