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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12131-7
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- NSF [DBI 0953881, IIS 0916439]
- NIH [R01HG005084, R01HG005853, R01MH097276, R01GM114472]
- University of Minnesota Rochester Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology Program Traineeship Award
- Walter Barnes Lang Fellowship
- CIFAR Genetic Networks program
Genetic interactions have been reported to underlie phenotypes in a variety of systems, but the extent to which they contribute to complex disease in humans remains unclear. In principle, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide a platform for detecting genetic interactions, but existing methods for identifying them from GWAS data tend to focus on testing individual locus pairs, which undermines statistical power. Importantly, a global genetic network mapped for a model eukaryotic organism revealed that genetic interactions often connect genes between compensatory functional modules in a highly coherent manner. Taking advantage of this expected structure, we developed a computational approach called BridGE that identifies pathways connected by genetic interactions from GWAS data. Applying BridGE broadly, we discover significant interactions in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, hypertension, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Our novel approach provides a general framework for mapping complex genetic networks underlying human disease from genome-wide genotype data.
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