期刊
HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
卷 23, 期 10, 页码 2780-2790出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt668
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- National Institutes of Health [R01-GM59507, UL1 RR024139, P01CA154295, U01-DK062422, R01-DK092235, KL2RR024138, U01-DK62429, 1K25AR063761]
- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA Cooperative Studies Program)
- National Science Foundation [DMS 1106738]
- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas [RP101251]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NNJ05HD36G]
- Clinical and Translational Science Award [UL1 RR024139]
Although Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have identified many susceptibility loci for common diseases, they only explain a small portion of heritability. It is challenging to identify the remaining disease loci because their association signals are likely weak and difficult to identify among millions of candidates. One potentially useful direction to increase statistical power is to incorporate functional genomics information, especially gene expression networks, to prioritize GWAS signals. Most current methods utilizing network information to prioritize disease genes are based on the guilt by association principle, in which networks are treated as static, and disease-associated genes are assumed to locate closer with each other than random pairs in the network. In contrast, we propose a novel guilt by rewiring principle. Studying the dynamics of gene networks between controls and patients, this principle assumes that disease genes more likely undergo rewiring in patients, whereas most of the network remains unaffected in disease condition. To demonstrate this principle, we consider the changes of co-expression networks in Crohns disease patients and controls, and how network dynamics reveals information on disease associations. Our results demonstrate that network rewiring is abundant in the immune system, and disease-associated genes are more likely to be rewired in patients. To integrate this network rewiring feature and GWAS signals, we propose to use the Markov random field framework to integrate network information to prioritize genes. Applications in Crohns disease and Parkinsons disease show that this framework leads to more replicable results, and implicates potentially disease-associated pathways.
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