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Hill C, Avila-Palencia I, Maxwell AP, Hunter RF, McKnight AJ. Harnessing the Full Potential of Multi-Omic Analyses to Advance the Study and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease. FRONTIERS IN NEPHROLOGY 2022; 2:923068. [PMID: 37674991 PMCID: PMC10479694 DOI: 10.3389/fneph.2022.923068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
Abstract
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was the 12th leading cause of death globally in 2017 with the prevalence of CKD estimated at ~9%. Early detection and intervention for CKD may improve patient outcomes, but standard testing approaches even in developed countries do not facilitate identification of patients at high risk of developing CKD, nor those progressing to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). Recent advances in CKD research are moving towards a more personalised approach for CKD. Heritability for CKD ranges from 30% to 75%, yet identified genetic risk factors account for only a small proportion of the inherited contribution to CKD. More in depth analysis of genomic sequencing data in large cohorts is revealing new genetic risk factors for common diagnoses of CKD and providing novel diagnoses for rare forms of CKD. Multi-omic approaches are now being harnessed to improve our understanding of CKD and explain some of the so-called 'missing heritability'. The most common omic analyses employed for CKD are genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics and phenomics. While each of these omics have been reviewed individually, considering integrated multi-omic analysis offers considerable scope to improve our understanding and treatment of CKD. This narrative review summarises current understanding of multi-omic research alongside recent experimental and analytical approaches, discusses current challenges and future perspectives, and offers new insights for CKD.
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- Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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Yates T, Lain A, Campbell J, FitzPatrick DR, Simpson TI. Creation and evaluation of full-text literature-derived, feature-weighted disease models of genetically determined developmental disorders. Database (Oxford) 2022; 2022:baac038. [PMID: 35670729 PMCID: PMC9216525 DOI: 10.1093/database/baac038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Revised: 03/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
There are >2500 different genetically determined developmental disorders (DD), which, as a group, show very high levels of both locus and allelic heterogeneity. This has led to the wide-spread use of evidence-based filtering of genome-wide sequence data as a diagnostic tool in DD. Determining whether the association of a filtered variant at a specific locus is a plausible explanation of the phenotype in the proband is crucial and commonly requires extensive manual literature review by both clinical scientists and clinicians. Access to a database of weighted clinical features extracted from rigorously curated literature would increase the efficiency of this process and facilitate the development of robust phenotypic similarity metrics. However, given the large and rapidly increasing volume of published information, conventional biocuration approaches are becoming impractical. Here, we present a scalable, automated method for the extraction of categorical phenotypic descriptors from the full-text literature. Papers identified through literature review were downloaded and parsed using the Cadmus custom retrieval package. Human Phenotype Ontology terms were extracted using MetaMap, with 76-84% precision and 65-73% recall. Mean terms per paper increased from 9 in title + abstract, to 68 using full text. We demonstrate that these literature-derived disease models plausibly reflect true disease expressivity more accurately than widely used manually curated models, through comparison with prospectively gathered data from the Deciphering Developmental Disorders study. The area under the curve for receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves increased by 5-10% through the use of literature-derived models. This work shows that scalable automated literature curation increases performance and adds weight to the need for this strategy to be integrated into informatic variant analysis pipelines. Database URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baac038.
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- T.M Yates
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, The University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
- Transforming Genetic Medicine Initiative, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, The University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
- Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, The University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XF, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, The University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
- Transforming Genetic Medicine Initiative, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
- Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, The University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XF, UK
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- Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
- Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, The University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XF, UK
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Anand S, Iyyappan OR, Manoharan S, Anand D, Jose MA, Shanker RR. Text Mining Protocol to Retrieve Significant Drug-Gene Interactions from PubMed Abstracts. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2496:17-39. [PMID: 35713857 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2305-3_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Genes and proteins form the basis of all cellular processes and ensure a smooth functioning of the human system. The diseases caused in humans can be either genetic in nature or may be caused due to external factors. Genetic diseases are mainly the result of any anomaly in gene/protein structure or function. This disruption interferes with the normal expression of cellular components. Against external factors, even though the immunogenicity of every individual protects them to a certain extent from infections, they are still susceptible to other disease-causing agents. Understanding the biological pathway/entities that could be targeted by specific drugs is an essential component of drug discovery. The traditional drug target discovery process is time-consuming and practically not feasible. A computational approach could provide speed and efficiency to the method. With the presence of vast biomedical literature, text mining also seems to be an obvious choice which could efficiently aid with other computational methods in identifying drug-gene targets. These could aid in initial stages of reviewing the disease components or can even aid parallel in extracting drug-disease-gene/protein relationships from literature. The present chapter aims at finding drug-gene interactions and how the information could be explored for drug interaction.
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- Sadhanha Anand
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
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- Department of Sciences, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Stella Maris College (Autonomous), Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
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- Department of Pharmacology, Cheran College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
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- International Business Unit, Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
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Serrano Nájera G, Narganes Carlón D, Crowther DJ. TrendyGenes, a computational pipeline for the detection of literature trends in academia and drug discovery. Sci Rep 2021; 11:15747. [PMID: 34344904 PMCID: PMC8333311 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94897-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Target identification and prioritisation are prominent first steps in modern drug discovery. Traditionally, individual scientists have used their expertise to manually interpret scientific literature and prioritise opportunities. However, increasing publication rates and the wider routine coverage of human genes by omic-scale research make it difficult to maintain meaningful overviews from which to identify promising new trends. Here we propose an automated yet flexible pipeline that identifies trends in the scientific corpus which align with the specific interests of a researcher and facilitate an initial prioritisation of opportunities. Using a procedure based on co-citation networks and machine learning, genes and diseases are first parsed from PubMed articles using a novel named entity recognition system together with publication date and supporting information. Then recurrent neural networks are trained to predict the publication dynamics of all human genes. For a user-defined therapeutic focus, genes generating more publications or citations are identified as high-interest targets. We also used topic detection routines to help understand why a gene is trendy and implement a system to propose the most prominent review articles for a potential target. This TrendyGenes pipeline detects emerging targets and pathways and provides a new way to explore the literature for individual researchers, pharmaceutical companies and funding agencies.
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- Guillermo Serrano Nájera
- Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK
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- Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK
- Division of Population Health and Genomics, Ninewells Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK
- Exscientia Ltd, Dundee One, River Court, 5 West Victoria Dock Road, Dundee, DD1 3JT, UK
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- Exscientia Ltd, Dundee One, River Court, 5 West Victoria Dock Road, Dundee, DD1 3JT, UK.
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Li S, Guo Z, Ioffe JB, Hu Y, Zhen Y, Zhou X. Text mining of gene-phenotype associations reveals new phenotypic profiles of autism-associated genes. Sci Rep 2021; 11:15269. [PMID: 34315992 PMCID: PMC8316556 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94742-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Autism is a spectrum disorder with wide variation in type and severity of symptoms. Understanding gene-phenotype associations is vital to unravel the disease mechanisms and advance its diagnosis and treatment. To date, several databases have stored a large portion of gene-phenotype associations which are mainly obtained from genetic experiments. However, a large proportion of gene-phenotype associations are still buried in the autism-related literature and there are limited resources to investigate autism-associated gene-phenotype associations. Given the abundance of the autism-related literature, we were thus motivated to develop Autism_genepheno, a text mining pipeline to identify sentence-level mentions of autism-associated genes and phenotypes in literature through natural language processing methods. We have generated a comprehensive database of gene-phenotype associations in the last five years' autism-related literature that can be easily updated as new literature becomes available. We have evaluated our pipeline through several different approaches, and we are able to rank and select top autism-associated genes through their unique and wide spectrum of phenotypic profiles, which could provide a unique resource for the diagnosis and treatment of autism. The data resources and the Autism_genpheno pipeline are available at: https://github.com/maiziezhoulab/Autism_genepheno .
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- Sijie Li
- Department of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK
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- Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA
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- Department of Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28213, USA.
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- Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA.
- Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA.
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Kafkas Ş, Hoehndorf R. Ontology based text mining of gene-phenotype associations: application to candidate gene prediction. Database (Oxford) 2019; 2019:baz019. [PMID: 30809638 PMCID: PMC6391585 DOI: 10.1093/database/baz019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Revised: 01/09/2019] [Accepted: 01/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Gene-phenotype associations play an important role in understanding the disease mechanisms which is a requirement for treatment development. A portion of gene-phenotype associations are observed mainly experimentally and made publicly available through several standard resources such as MGI. However, there is still a vast amount of gene-phenotype associations buried in the biomedical literature. Given the large amount of literature data, we need automated text mining tools to alleviate the burden in manual curation of gene-phenotype associations and to develop comprehensive resources. In this study, we present an ontology-based approach in combination with statistical methods to text mine gene-phenotype associations from the literature. Our method achieved AUC values of 0.90 and 0.75 in recovering known gene-phenotype associations from HPO and MGI respectively. We posit that candidate genes and their relevant diseases should be expressed with similar phenotypes in publications. Thus, we demonstrate the utility of our approach by predicting disease candidate genes based on the semantic similarities of phenotypes associated with genes and diseases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study using an ontology based approach to extract gene-phenotype associations from the literature. We evaluated our disease candidate prediction model on the gene-disease associations from MGI. Our model achieved AUC values of 0.90 and 0.87 on OMIM (human) and MGI (mouse) datasets of gene-disease associations respectively. Our manual analysis on the text mined data revealed that our method can accurately extract gene-phenotype associations which are not currently covered by the existing public gene-phenotype resources. Overall, results indicate that our method can precisely extract known as well as new gene-phenotype associations from literature. All the data and methods are available at https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/genepheno.
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- Şenay Kafkas
- Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering Division, Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering Division, Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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