Identify asthma genes across three phases based on protein-protein interaction network.

ABSTRACT: Asthma is a common inflammatory disease that is generally caused by genetic mutations or environmental factors. Recently, the emerging of omics data provides an alternative way to understand asthma. In this study, the authors present a new framework to detect asthma disease genes based on protein-protein interaction network (PPIN) and gene expression. Specifically, they construct PPINs for different stages of asthma, and detect those interactions occurred in the specific stages. By investigating the proteins in these stage-specific interactions, they find they are more likely related to asthma, and the functional enrichment analysis indicate that the pathways enriched in the differential interactions are related to the progress of asthma. Moreover, some proteins in the differential interac

SUBMITTER: Yang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8687380 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature