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Gene prioritization through genomic data fusion

Nature Biotechnologyvolume 24, pages537–544 (2006)Cite this article

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Abstract

The identification of genes involved in health and disease remains a challenge. We describe a bioinformatics approach, together with a freely accessible, interactive and flexible software termed Endeavour, to prioritize candidate genes underlying biological processes or diseases, based on their similarity to known genes involved in these phenomena. Unlike previous approaches, ours generates distinct prioritizations for multiple heterogeneous data sources, which are then integrated, or fused, into a global ranking using order statistics. In addition, it offers the flexibility of including additional data sources. Validation of our approach revealed it was able to efficiently prioritize 627 genes in disease data sets and 76 genes in biological pathway sets, identify candidates of 16 mono- or polygenic diseases, and discover regulatory genes of myeloid differentiation. Furthermore, the approach identified a novel gene involved in craniofacial development from a 2-Mb chromosomal region, deleted in some patients with DiGeorge-like birth defects. The approach described here offers an alternative integrative method for gene discovery.

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Figure 1: Concept of prioritization by Endeavour.
Figure 2: Cross-validation results.
Figure 3: Cross-validation results.
Figure 4:In vitro functional validation of Endeavour.
Figure 5: Functional validation of Endeavour in zebrafish.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank all groups and consortia that made their data freely available: Ensembl, NCBI (EntrezGene and Medline), Gene Ontology, BIND, KEGG, Atlas, InterPro, BioBase, the Disease Probabilities from Lopez-Bigas and Ouzounis9 and the Prospectr scores from Euan Adie8. Ouzounis8 and the Prospectr scores from Euan Adie9. We also thank the following people for their help in particular areas: Robert Vlietinck with the manuscript, Patrick Glenisson with text mining, Joke Allemeersch and Gert Thijs with the order statistics and Camilla Esguerra with the zebrafish experiments. S.A., D.L. and P.V.L. are sponsored by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). This work is supported by Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Instituut voor de aanmoediging van Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie in Vlaanderen (IWT) (STWW-00162), Research Council KULeuven (GOA-Ambiorics, IDO genetic networks), FWO (G.0229.03 and G.0413.03), IUAP V-22, K.U.L. Excellentiefinanciering CoE SymBioSys (EF/05/007), EU NoE Biopattern and EU EST BIOPTRAIN to Y.M., and by the FWO (G.0405.06), GOA/2006/11 and GOA/2001/09, Squibb and EULSHB-CT-2004-503573 to P.C.

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  1. Stein Aerts, Diether Lambrechts, Sunit Maity, Peter Van Loo and Bert Coessens: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Human Genetics, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, bus 602, Leuven, 3000, Belgium

    Stein Aerts & Bassem Hassan

  2. The Center for Transgene Technology and Gene Therapy, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, bus 602, Leuven, 3000, Belgium

    Diether Lambrechts, Sunit Maity, Frederik De Smet & Peter Carmeliet

  3. Department of Human Genetics, Human Genome Laboratory, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, bus 602, Leuven, 3000, Belgium

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  4. Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SCD), Bioinformatics Group, University of Leuven, Belgium

    Stein Aerts, Peter Van Loo, Bert Coessens, Leon-Charles Tranchevent, Bart De Moor & Yves Moreau

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Supplementary information

Supplementary Fig. 1

Variability of the performance of endeavour, evaluated for each data source. (PDF 44 kb)

Supplementary Fig. 2

Pairwise dependency of the data sources. (PDF 55 kb)

Supplementary Fig. 3

Endeavor is not biased to well-characterized genes. (PDF 318 kb)

Supplementary Table 1

Selection criteria and training sets for the 10 mono and 6 polygenic diseases. (PDF 75 kb)

Supplementary Table 2

Prioritization of 1048 test genes located on chromosome 3 using training genes of congenital heart defects (CHD), arrythmias (AR), and cardiomyopathies (CM). (PDF 93 kb)

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