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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

DGLinker: flexible knowledge-graph prediction of disease-gene associations.

Jiajing Hu, Rosalba Lepore, Richard J B Dobson, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Daniel M Bean, Alfredo Iacoangeli

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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6 authors.

Jiajing HuDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, SE5 8AF, London, UK.
Rosalba LeporeBSC-CNS Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, 08034, Spain.
Richard J B DobsonDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, SE5 8AF, London, UK.
Ammar Al-ChalabiDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, SE5 9RT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4924-7712
Daniel M BeanDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, SE5 8AF, London, UK.
Alfredo IacoangeliDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, SE5 8AF, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5280-5017

Funding

Department of HealthMedical Research Council MC_PC_17214Medical Research Council MR/L501529/1Medical Research Council MR/R024804/1Medical Research Council MR/S00310X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a result of the advent of high-throughput technologies, there has been rapid progress in our understanding of the genetics underlying biological processes. However, despite such advances, the genetic landscape of human diseases has only marginally been disclosed. Exploiting the present availability of large amounts of biological and phenotypic data, we can use our current understanding of disease genetics to train machine learning models to predict novel genetic factors associated with the disease. To this end, we developed DGLinker, a webserver for the prediction of novel candidate genes for human diseases given a set of known disease genes. DGLinker has a user-friendly interface that allows non-expert users to exploit biomedical information from a wide range of biological and phenotypic databases, and/or to upload their own data, to generate a knowledge-graph and use machine learning to predict new disease-associated genes. The webserver includes tools to explore and interpret the results and generates publication-ready figures. DGLinker is available at https://dglinker.rosalind.kcl.ac.uk. The webserver is free and open to all users without the need for registration.

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SoftwareAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisComputer GraphicsDiseaseGenesHumansMachine Learning

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PMID34125897
PMCPMC8262728

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