Ranking candidate disease genes from gene expression and protein interaction: a Katz-centrality based approach.

Many diseases have complex genetic causes, where a set of alleles can affect the propensity of getting the disease. The identification of such disease genes is important to understand the mechanistic and evolutionary aspects of pathogenesis, improve diagnosis and treatment of the disease, and aid in...

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Main Authors: Jing Zhao, Ting-Hong Yang, Yongxu Huang, Petter Holme
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3166320?pdf=render