Behera PM, Behera DK, Panda A, Dixit A, Padhi P. In silico expressed sequence tag analysis in identification of probable diabetic genes as virtual therapeutic targets.
Biomed Res Int 2013;
2013:704818. [PMID:
23509765 PMCID:
PMC3582052 DOI:
10.1155/2013/704818]
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Abstract
The expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are major entities for gene discovery, molecular transcripts, and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) analysis as well as functional annotation of putative gene products. In our quest for identification of novel diabetic genes as virtual targets for type II diabetes, we searched various publicly available databases and found 7 reported genes. The in silico EST analysis of these reported genes produced 6 consensus contigs which illustrated some good matches to a number of chromosomes of the human genome. Again the conceptual translation of these contigs produced 3 protein sequences. The functional and structural annotations of these proteins revealed some important features which may lead to the discovery of novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of diabetes.
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