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ArticleScientific reports2017

Determining causal miRNAs and their signaling cascade in diseases using an influence diffusion model.

Joseph J Nalluri, Pratip Rana, Debmalya Barh, Vasco Azevedo, Thang N Dinh, Vladimir Vladimirov, Preetam Ghosh

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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7 authors.

Joseph J NalluriDepartment of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA. nallurijj@vcu.edu.
Pratip RanaDepartment of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Debmalya BarhCenter for Genomics and Applied Gene Technology, Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India.
Vasco AzevedoLaboratório de Genética Celular e Molecular, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antonio Carlos,6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Thang N DinhDepartment of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Vladimir VladimirovDepartment of Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Preetam GhoshDepartment of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3880-5886

Funding

Integrating miRNAs and mRNAs with alcohol eQTLs in two postmortem brain regionsR21AA022749 · NIAAA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI VLADIMIROV, VLADIMIR IVANOV · 2015 to 2016
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NIAAA NIH HHS R21 AA022749
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent studies, miRNAs have been found to be extremely influential in many of the essential biological processes. They exhibit a self-regulatory mechanism through which they act as positive/negative regulators of expression of genes and other miRNAs. This has direct implications in the regulation of various pathophysiological conditions, signaling pathways and different types of cancers. Studying miRNA-disease associations has been an extensive area of research; however deciphering miRNA-miRNA network regulatory patterns in several diseases remains a challenge. In this study, we use information diffusion theory to quantify the influence diffusion in a miRNA-miRNA regulation network across multiple disease categories. Our proposed methodology determines the critical disease specific miRNAs which play a causal role in their signaling cascade and hence may regulate disease progression. We extensively validate our framework using existing computational tools from the literature. Furthermore, we implement our framework on a comprehensive miRNA expression data set for alcohol dependence and identify the causal miRNAs for alcohol-dependency in patients which were validated by the phase-shift in their expression scores towards the early stages of the disease. Finally, our computational framework for identifying causal miRNAs implicated in diseases is available as a free online tool for the greater scientific community.

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Disease SusceptibilityGene Expression RegulationModels, BiologicalRNA InterferenceSignal TransductionAlgorithmsComputational BiologyHumansMicroRNAsRNA, MessengerMicroRNAsRNA, Messenger

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PMCPMC5557952

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