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ArticleNeuromolecular medicine2022

Revealing the Modular Similarities and Differences Among Alzheimer's Disease, Vascular Dementia, and Parkinson's Disease in Genomic Networks.

Yafei Chen, Qiong Liu, Jun Liu, Penglu Wei, Bing Li, Nongyun Wang, Zhenquan Liu, Zhong Wang

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Article in Neuromolecular medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Yafei Chen *School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
Qiong Liu *Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jun LiuInstitute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Penglu WeiBeijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Bing LiInstitute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Nongyun WangState Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan, China.
Zhenquan LiuNational Institute of TCM Constitution and Preventive Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China. lzqbzy@sina.com.
Zhong WangInstitute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0975-9251

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Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular dementia (VD), and Parkinson's disease (PD) exert increasingly lethal or disabling effects on humans, but the associations among these diseases at the molecular level remain unclear. In our research, lists of genes related to these three diseases were acquired from public databases. We constructed gene-gene networks of the lists of disease-related genes using the STRING database and selected the plug-in MCODE as the most suitable method to divide the three disease-associated networks into modules through an entropy calculation. Notably, 1173 AD-related, 203 VD-related, and 722 PD-related genes as well as 72 overlapping genes were observed among the three diseases. By dividing the modules from the gene network, we divided the AD-related gene network into 27 modules, the VD-related gene network into 8 modules, and the PD-related gene network into 17 modules. After the enrichment analysis of each disease-related gene, 146 overlapping biological processes and 32 overlapping pathways were identified. Ultimately, through similarity analysis of the genes, biological processes, and pathways, we found that AD and VD were the most closely related at the biological process and pathway levels, with similarity coefficients of 0.2784 and 0.3626, respectively. After analyzing the overlapping gene network, we found that INS might play an important role in the network and that insulin and its signaling pathways may play a key role in these neurodegenerative diseases. Our research illustrates a new method for in-depth research on the three diseases, which may accelerate the progress of developing new therapeutics and may be applied to prevent neurodegenerative diseases.

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Alzheimer DiseaseDementia, VascularNeurodegenerative DiseasesParkinson DiseaseGene Regulatory NetworksGenomicsHumansAlzheimer’s diseaseEnrichment analysisGene networkParkinson’s diseaseTherapeutic predictionVascular dementia

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