Network-based elucidation of human disease similarities reveals common functional modules enriched for pluripotent drug targets.

Current work in elucidating relationships between diseases has largely been based on pre-existing knowledge of disease genes. Consequently, these studies are limited in their discovery of new and unknown disease relationships. We present the first quantitative framework to compare and contrast disea...

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Main Authors: Silpa Suthram, Joel T Dudley, Annie P Chiang, Rong Chen, Trevor J Hastie, Atul J Butte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2816673?pdf=render