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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2019

A data driven approach reveals disease similarity on a molecular level.

Kleanthi Lakiotaki, George Georgakopoulos, Elias Castanas, Oluf Dimitri Røe, Giorgos Borboudakis, Ioannis Tsamardinos

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Article in NPJ systems biology and applications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Map Disease Relationships Challenges Classical Disease Views.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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Kleanthi Lakiotaki1Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0442-2211
George Georgakopoulos1Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Elias Castanas2Laboratory of Experimental Endocrinology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-8370-1835
Oluf Dimitri Røe3Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Clinical Research and Molecular Medicine, Trondheim, Norway.
Giorgos Borboudakis1Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Ioannis Tsamardinos1Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2492-959X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Could there be unexpected similarities between different studies, diseases, or treatments, on a molecular level due to common biological mechanisms involved? To answer this question, we develop a method for computing similarities between empirical, statistical distributions of high-dimensional, low-sample datasets, and apply it on hundreds of -omics studies. The similarities lead to dataset-to-dataset networks visualizing the landscape of a large portion of biological data. Potentially interesting similarities connecting studies of different diseases are assembled in a disease-to-disease network. Exploring it, we discover numerous non-trivial connections between Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, asthma and psoriasis, or liver cancer and obesity, to name a few. We then present a method that identifies the molecular quantities and pathways that contribute the most to the identified similarities and could point to novel drug targets or provide biological insights. The proposed method acts as a "statistical telescope" providing a global view of the constellation of biological data; readers can peek through it at: http://datascope.csd.uoc.gr:25000/.

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Epidemiologic MethodsAlgorithmsComputational BiologyData AnalysisDatabases, FactualDatabases, GeneticDiseaseEpidemiologyHumansModels, StatisticalSystems AnalysisComputer scienceInformation theory

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PMCPMC6814739

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