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Identifying Relationships among Genomic Disease Regions: Predicting Genes at Pathogenic SNP Associations and Rare Deletions

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dc.contributor Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology
dc.contributor Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
dc.contributor Scolnick, Edward Mark
dc.contributor Daly, Mark J.
dc.contributor Altshuler, David
dc.contributor Sklar, Pamela
dc.contributor Scolnick, Edward Mark
dc.contributor Rossin, Elizabeth
dc.contributor Plenge, Robert M.
dc.contributor Raychaudhuri, Soumya
dc.creator Daly, Mark J.
dc.creator Altshuler, David
dc.creator Xavier, Ramnik J.
dc.creator Sklar, Pamela
dc.creator Purcell, Shaun M.
dc.creator International Schizophrenia Consortium
dc.creator Ng, Aylwin C. Y.
dc.creator Scolnick, Edward Mark
dc.creator Rossin, Elizabeth
dc.creator Plenge, Robert M.
dc.creator Raychaudhuri, Soumya
dc.date 2010-05-28T15:02:09Z
dc.date 2010-05-28T15:02:09Z
dc.date 2009-06
dc.date 2009-02
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:08:30Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:08:30Z
dc.identifier 1553-7390
dc.identifier 1553-7404
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55344
dc.identifier Raychaudhuri, Soumya et al. “Identifying Relationships among Genomic Disease Regions: Predicting Genes at Pathogenic SNP Associations and Rare Deletions.” PLoS Genet 5.6 (2009): e1000534. © 2009 Raychaudhuri et al.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6757-5341
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7250-4107
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278903
dc.description Translating a set of disease regions into insight about pathogenic mechanisms requires not only the ability to identify the key disease genes within them, but also the biological relationships among those key genes. Here we describe a statistical method, Gene Relationships Among Implicated Loci (GRAIL), that takes a list of disease regions and automatically assesses the degree of relatedness of implicated genes using 250,000 PubMed abstracts. We first evaluated GRAIL by assessing its ability to identify subsets of highly related genes in common pathways from validated lipid and height SNP associations from recent genome-wide studies. We then tested GRAIL, by assessing its ability to separate true disease regions from many false positive disease regions in two separate practical applications in human genetics. First, we took 74 nominally associated Crohn's disease SNPs and applied GRAIL to identify a subset of 13 SNPs with highly related genes. Of these, ten convincingly validated in follow-up genotyping; genotyping results for the remaining three were inconclusive. Next, we applied GRAIL to 165 rare deletion events seen in schizophrenia cases (less than one-third of which are contributing to disease risk). We demonstrate that GRAIL is able to identify a subset of 16 deletions containing highly related genes; many of these genes are expressed in the central nervous system and play a role in neuronal synapses. GRAIL offers a statistically robust approach to identifying functionally related genes from across multiple disease regions—that likely represent key disease pathways. An online version of this method is available for public use (http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpg/grail/).
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Public Library of Science
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000534
dc.relation PLoS Genetics
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
dc.source PLoS
dc.title Identifying Relationships among Genomic Disease Regions: Predicting Genes at Pathogenic SNP Associations and Rare Deletions
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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