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ArticleiScience2021

Integrating protein networks and machine learning for disease stratification in the Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias.

Nikoleta Vavouraki, James E Tomkins, Eleanna Kara, Henry Houlden, John Hardy, Marcus J Tindall, Patrick A Lewis, Claudia Manzoni

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Article in iScience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hereditary spastic paraplegia: from decades of therapy to future innovations.Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders · 2026
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  3. Human mutations inFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2024
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  5. Construction and contextualization approaches for protein-protein interaction networks.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Nikoleta VavourakiSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AX, UK.
James E TomkinsSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AX, UK.
Eleanna KaraDepartment of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
Henry HouldenDepartment of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
John HardyDepartment of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
Marcus J TindallDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AX, UK.
Patrick A LewisSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AX, UK.
Claudia ManzoniSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AX, UK.
University of Reading · GBNational Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery · GBHong Kong University of Science and Technology · HKRoyal Veterinary College · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0701075Medical Research Council G0901254Medical Research Council G1001253Medical Research Council MR/J004758/1Medical Research Council MR/K01417X/1Medical Research Council MR/L010933/1Medical Research Council MR/L501542/1Medical Research Council MR/N026004/1Parkinson's UK G-0907Parkinson's UK G-1307Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias are a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by spasticity and weakness in the lower body. Owing to the combination of genetic diversity and variable clinical presentation, the Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias are a strong candidate for protein-protein interaction network analysis as a tool to understand disease mechanism(s) and to aid functional stratification of phenotypes. In this study, experimentally validated human data were used to create a protein-protein interaction network based on the causative genes. Network evaluation as a combination of topological analysis and functional annotation led to the identification of core proteins in putative shared biological processes, such as intracellular transport and vesicle trafficking. The application of machine learning techniques suggested a functional dichotomy linked with distinct sets of clinical presentations, indicating that there is scope to further classify conditions currently described under the same umbrella-term of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias based on specific molecular mechanisms of disease.

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Identifiers

PMID34113825
PMCPMC8169945
OpenAlexW3157413169

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