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ArticleHuman genetics2017

Network analysis of mitonuclear GWAS reveals functional networks and tissue expression profiles of disease-associated genes.

Simon C Johnson, Brenda Gonzalez, Quanwei Zhang, Brandon Milholland, Zhengdong Zhang, Yousin Suh

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Article in Human genetics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Simon C JohnsonDepartment of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. Simon.johnson@einstein.yu.edu.
Brenda GonzalezDepartment of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Quanwei ZhangDepartment of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Brandon MilhollandDepartment of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Zhengdong ZhangDepartment of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Yousin SuhDepartment of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. Yousin.suh@einstein.yu.edu.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · US

Funding

THE IMPACT OF CELLULAR DEFENSE ON THE ROLE OF Ku80 IN GENOME MAINTENANCE AND LONGP01AG017242 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR SAN ANT · PI VIJG, JAN · 1999 to 2023
$46.1M
Training in Aging ResearchT32AG023475 · NIA · ALBERT EINSTEIN COL OF MED YESHIVA UNIV · PI NIR J BARZILAI, DEREK Major HUFFMAN · 2004 to 2026
$8.6M
(PQB4) Age-cancer interplay of genome and epi-genome in human lungR01CA180126 · NCI · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI AUTON, ADAM, SPIVACK, SIMON D · 2013 to 2016
$2.8M
New Methods to Uncover Global Transcriptional Programs for Disease Risk VariantsR01GM104459 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI SUH, YOUSIN · 2013 to 2016
$2.5M
Functional Characterization and Physiological Consequences of Human Longevity-Associated IGF1R VariantsF32AG050444 · NIA · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI JOHNSON, SIMON C · 2015 to 2016
$67k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA180126NIA NIH HHS F32 AG050444NIA NIH HHS P01 AG017242NIA NIH HHS T32 AG023475NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104459
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While mitochondria have been linked to many human diseases through genetic association and functional studies, the precise role of mitochondria in specific pathologies, such as cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, and metabolic diseases, is often unclear. Here, we take advantage of the catalog of human genome-wide associations, whole-genome tissue expression and expression quantitative trait loci datasets, and annotated mitochondrial proteome databases to examine the role of common genetic variation in mitonuclear genes in human disease. Through pathway-based analysis we identified distinct functional pathways and tissue expression profiles associated with each of the major human diseases. Among our most striking findings, we observe that mitonuclear genes associated with cancer are broadly expressed among human tissues and largely represent one functional process, intrinsic apoptosis, while mitonuclear genes associated with other diseases, such as neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases, show tissue-specific expression profiles and are associated with unique functional pathways. These results provide new insight into human diseases using unbiased genome-wide approaches.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksGenome, HumanGenome-Wide Association StudyAllelesCardiovascular DiseasesCell NucleusDNA, MitochondrialGene OntologyGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansInflammationMetabolic DiseasesNeoplasmsNeurodegenerative DiseasesOrgan SpecificityPolymorphism, Single NucleotideDNA, Mitochondrial

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