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Comparison of methods for prioritization of genes associated to neurodevelopment disorders

Grant number: 14/10488-3
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Master
Start date: September 01, 2014
End date: February 29, 2016
Field of knowledge:Interdisciplinary Subjects
Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
Principal Investigator:David Corrêa Martins Junior
Grantee:Arthur Sant'Anna Feltrin
Host Institution: Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição (CMCC). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Systems Biology is an interdisciplinary research field which studies the complex interactions that occur between biological compounds of a living organism in order to understand their behavior, which emerges from these interactions. Such interactions compose a highly complex network, whose elements can be of several types. In this context, complex diseases are characterized precisely by being of polygenic and multifactorial nature, i.e., the genesis and development of these diseases are a result of the joint interaction of several factors, including not only genes, proteins and other molecules, but also epigenetic and environmental factors. It is noteworthy the importance of developing methods that integrate data of various types, such as genetic alterations (Single Nucleotice Polymorphism (SNP), Copy Number Variation (CNV)), transcriptome and PPI (Protein-Protein Interaction), for the study of these diseases. Several methods of data integration have been developed for complex disease studies, especially for biological signatures identification (candidate genes associated with a particular disease). However, the gene lists obtained from different studies related to the same complex disease tend to present very small convergence. Thus, the comparison of these methods is a crucial issue. The main goal of this project is to conduct an extensive literature review ontechniques for gene prioritization associated to complex diseases and to propose a methodology for methods comparison generic enough to evaluate the results of these methods applied to any complex disease. This project intends to focus on studies of neurodevelopment disorders, such as schizophrenia, autism and ADHD. (AU)

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
TAHIRA, ANA; MARQUES, FERNANDA; LISBOA, BIANCA; FELTRIN, ARTHUR; BARBOSA, ANDRE; DE OLIVEIRA, KATIA CRISTINA; DE BRAGANCA PEREIRA, CARLOS ALBERTO; LEITE, RENATA; GRINBERG, LEA; SUEMOTO, CLAUDIA; et al. Are the 50's, the transition decade, in choroid plexus aging?. GEROSCIENCE, v. 43, n. 1, SI, . (14/10488-3, 14/00591-1, 14/00041-1, 11/14658-2)
TAHIRA, ANA CAROLINA; BARBOSA, ANDRE ROCHA; FELTRIN, ARTHUR SANT'ANNA; GASTALDI, VINICIUS DAGUANO; CALEGARI DE TOLEDO, VICTOR HUGO; DE CARVALHO PEREIRA, JOSE GERALDO; GARCIA LISBOA, BIANCA CRISTINA; DE SOUZA REIS, VIVIANE NERI; FEIO DOS SANTOS, ANA CECILIA; MASCHIETTO, MARIANA; et al. Putative contributions of the sex chromosome proteins SOX3 and SRY to neurodevelopmental disorders. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART B-NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS, v. 180, n. 6, SI, p. 390-414, . (14/00591-1, 14/10488-3, 15/06281-7, 11/14658-2, 14/00041-1, 11/04956-6)
FELTRIN, ARTHUR SANT'ANNA; TAHIRA, ANA CAROLINA; SIMOES, SERGIO NERY; BRENTANI, HELENA; MARTINS, JR., DAVID CORREA. Assessment of complementarity of WGCNA and NERI results for identification of modules associated to schizophrenia spectrum disorders. PLoS One, v. 14, n. 1, . (11/04956-6, 11/50761-2, 14/00041-1, 14/10488-3, 15/01587-0)
TAHIRA, ANA; MARQUES, FERNANDA; LISBOA, BIANCA; FELTRIN, ARTHUR; BARBOSA, ANDRE; DE OLIVEIRA, KATIA CRISTINA; DE BRAGANCA PEREIRA, CARLOS ALBERTO; LEITE, RENATA; GRINBERG, LEA; SUEMOTO, CLAUDIA; et al. Are the 50's, the transition decade, in choroid plexus aging?. GEROSCIENCE, v. 43, n. 1, p. 13-pg., . (14/10488-3, 14/00041-1, 11/14658-2, 14/00591-1)
TAHIRA, ANA CAROLINA; BARBOSA, ANDRE ROCHA; FELTRIN, ARTHUR SANT'ANNA; GASTALDI, VINICIUS DAGUANO; CALEGARI DE TOLEDO, VICTOR HUGO; DE CARVALHO PEREIRA, JOSE GERALDO; GARCIA LISBOA, BIANCA CRISTINA; DE SOUZA REIS, VIVIANE NERI; FEIO DOS SANTOS, ANA CECILIA; MASCHIETTO, MARIANA; et al. Putative contributions of the sex chromosome proteins SOX3 and SRY to neurodevelopmental disorders. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART B-NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS, v. 180, n. 6, p. 25-pg., . (14/00591-1, 15/06281-7, 14/00041-1, 11/04956-6, 14/10488-3, 11/14658-2)