Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Integrating gene expression and clinical data to identify drug repurposing candidates for hyperlipidemia and hypertension

  • Patrick Wu,
  • QiPing Feng,
  • Vern Eric Kerchberger,
  • Scott D. Nelson,
  • Qingxia Chen,
  • Bingshan Li,
  • Todd L. Edwards,
  • Nancy J. Cox,
  • Elizabeth J. Phillips,
  • C. Michael Stein,
  • Dan M. Roden,
  • Joshua C. Denny,
  • Wei-Qi Wei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27751-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Prioritizing drug repurposing candidates for downstream studies remains challenging. Here, the authors present a high-throughput approach to identify and validate drug repurposing candidates, integrating human gene expression, drug perturbation, and clinical data from publicly available resources.