BMC Bioinformatics

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Disease candidate gene identification and prioritization using protein interaction networks

Jing Chen1,2, Bruce J Aronow1,2,3 and Anil G Jegga1,3*

Author Affiliations

1 Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

3 Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:73 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-73

Published: 27 February 2009

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Additional file 1:

Venn diagrams of unique genes and interactions from the three (BIND, BioGRID, and HPRD) PPIN data source.

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Training set data used for evaluation of PPIN in disease candidate gene prioritization, comprising 19 diseases with 693 associated genes. Of these, 589 genes were used in the cross validation because the rest (104 genes) had no reported interactions.

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Cardiac septal defect associated OMIM records, genes and their immediate interactants (based on protein-protein interactions).

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Prioritized candidate genes for cardiac septal defects using PPIN- and functional annotation- based methods.

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Prioritized candidate genes for cardiac septal defects using three PPIN-based methods and two functional annotation- based methods (ToppGene and ENDEAVOUR).

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Annotation and PPIN coverage of the human genes.

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