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This article is part of the supplement: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual MCBIOS Conference. Computational Frontiers in Biomedicine

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Computational analysis of biological functions and pathways collectively targeted by co-expressed microRNAs in cancer

Yuriy Gusev1 email, Thomas D Schmittgen2 email, Megan Lerner1,3 email, Russell Postier1 email and Daniel Brackett1,3 email

1Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

2Division of Pharmaceutics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

3Veterans Affairs Medical Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 7):S16doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-S7-S16

Published: 1 November 2007

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Supplemental Figure 2 – Top ranked biological functions and disease categories targeted by miRNAs and known to be affected in Colon Cancer. A. Top 5 Biological Functions. B. Top 5 Disease Categories

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Supplemental Figure 3 – Top ranked biological functions and disease categories targeted by miRNAs and known to be affected in Pancreatic Cancer. A. Top 5 Biological Functions. B. Top 5 Disease Categories

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Top 5 functions, disease categories and toxicology lists for 5 cancers.

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Supplemental Figure 1 – Comparison of Toxicology categories and canonical pathways targeted by miRNA for 5 types of cancer. A. Toxicology related gene lists from top ranked Toxicology categories. B. Top ranked Canonical Pathways

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Supplemental Figure 5 – Comparison of top ranked signaling pathways targeted by microRNAs in 5 types of cancer. A. Ratio of the number of genes targeted by miRNAs to the total number of genes in each pathway. B. Significance of overrepresentation of microRNA targets in each pathway

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Supplemental Figure 4 – TGF-b Signaling pathway. A. Genes known to be affected in Lymphoma (shown in gray) and known anticancer drugs. B. Targets of microRNA family miR-17-92 (shown in gray) and targets of known anticancer drugs. Drug that are known to target genes from this signaling pathway are outlined in dark blue. Drug targets are outlined in light blue.

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Supplemental Table 1 – Number of predicted miRNA target genes known to be associated with specific or any cancer and targeted by anti-cancer drugs.

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Supplemental Tables: genes known to be affected in specific cancer and targeted by miRNAs (lymphoma, breast cancer, lung cancer).

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