期刊
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
卷 12, 期 5, 页码 463-473出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbr024
关键词
Orthology; disease; database; gene duplication
资金
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University
- Wenner-Gren Foundations
Orthology is one of the most important tools available to modern biology, as it allows making inferences from easily studied model systems to much less tractable systems of interest, such as ourselves. This becomes important not least in the study of genetic diseases. We here review work on the orthology of disease-associated genes and also present an updated version of the InParanoid-based disease orthology database and web site OrthoDisease, with 14-fold increased species coverage since the previous version. Using this resource, we survey the taxonomic distribution of orthologs of human genes involved in different disease categories. The hypothesis that paralogs can mask the effect of deleterious mutations predicts that known heritable disease genes should have fewer close paralogs. We found large-scale support for this hypothesis as significantly fewer duplications were observed for disease genes in the OrthoDisease ortholog groups.
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