Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Network analysis reveals rare disease signatures across multiple levels of biological organization

  • Pisanu Buphamalai,
  • Tomislav Kokotovic,
  • Vanja Nagy,
  • Jörg Menche

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26674-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Despite the clear causal relationship between genotype and phenotype in rare diseases, identifying the pathobiological mechanisms at various levels of biological organization remains a practical and conceptual challenge. Here, the authors introduce a network approach for evaluating the impact of rare gene defects across biological scales.