Title
A systematic assessment of linking gene expression with genetic variants for prioritizing candidate targets.
Abstract
Gene expression and disease-associated variants are often used to prioritize candidate genes for target validation. However, the success of these gene features alone or in combination in the discovery of therapeutic targets is uncertain. Here we evaluated the effectiveness of the differential expression (DE), the disease-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the combination of the two in recovering and predicting known therapeutic targets across 56 human diseases. We demonstrate that the performance of each feature varies across diseases and generally the features have more recovery power than predictive power. The combination of the two features, however, has significantly higher predictive power than each feature alone. Our study provides a systematic evaluation of two common gene features, DE and SNPs, for prioritization of candidate targets and identified an improved predictive power of coupling these two features.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
Biocomputing-Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Disease,Gene,Candidate gene,Predictive power,Biology,Genetic variation,Gene expression,Prioritization,Single-nucleotide polymorphism,Bioinformatics,Genetics
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2335-6936
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hua Fan-Minogue140.85
Bin Chen210.43
Weronika Sikora-Wohlfeld310.43
Marina Sirota420.80
Atul J. Butte5493.25