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Edgotype: a fundamental link between genotype and phenotype.
Sahni, Nidhi; Yi, Song; Zhong, Quan et al.
2013In Current opinion in genetics & development, 23 (6), p. 649-57
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Keywords :
Gene Regulatory Networks; Genetic Association Studies/methods; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics; Genotype; Humans; Metabolic Networks and Pathways/genetics; Models, Genetic; Mutation; Phenotype; Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs/genetics
Abstract :
[en] Classical 'one-gene/one-disease' models cannot fully reconcile with the increasingly appreciated prevalence of complicated genotype-to-phenotype associations in human disease. Genes and gene products function not in isolation but as components of intricate networks of macromolecules (DNA, RNA, or proteins) and metabolites linked through biochemical or physical interactions, represented in 'interactome' network models as 'nodes' and 'edges', respectively. Accordingly, mechanistic understanding of human disease will require understanding of how disease-causing mutations affect systems or interactome properties. The study of 'edgetics' uncovers specific loss or gain of interactions (edges) to interpret genotype-to-phenotype relationships. We review how distinct genetic variants, the genotype, lead to distinct phenotypic outcomes, the phenotype, through edgetic perturbations in interactome networks altogether representing the 'edgotype'.
Disciplines :
Genetics & genetic processes
Author, co-author :
Sahni, Nidhi
Yi, Song
Zhong, Quan
Jailkhani, Noor
CHARLOTEAUX, Benoit ;  Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA ; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cusick, Michael E.
Vidal, Marc
Language :
English
Title :
Edgotype: a fundamental link between genotype and phenotype.
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Current opinion in genetics & development
ISSN :
0959-437X
eISSN :
1879-0380
Volume :
23
Issue :
6
Pages :
649-57
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Commentary :
Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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