Highly interconnected genes in disease-specific networks are enriched for disease-associated polymorphisms
Open Access
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Genome Biology
- Vol. 13 (6), R46
- https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2012-13-6-r46
Abstract
Complex diseases are associated with altered interactions between thousands of genes. We developed a novel method to identify and prioritize disease genes, which was generally applicable to complex diseases.This publication has 45 references indexed in Scilit:
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