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ReviewFrontiers in genetics2021

Network Biology Approaches to Achieve Precision Medicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

John P Thomas, Dezso Modos, Tamas Korcsmaros, Johanne Brooks-Warburton

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Review in Frontiers in genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Omics and Multi-Omics in IBD: No Integration, No Breakthroughs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

John P ThomasEarlham Institute, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Dezso ModosEarlham Institute, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Tamas KorcsmarosEarlham Institute, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Johanne Brooks-WarburtonDepartment of Gastroenterology, Lister Hospital, Stevenage, United Kingdom.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/F/000PR10355
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic immune-mediated condition arising due to complex interactions between multiple genetic and environmental factors. Despite recent advances, the pathogenesis of the condition is not fully understood and patients still experience suboptimal clinical outcomes. Over the past few years, investigators are increasingly capturing multi-omics data from patient cohorts to better characterise the disease. However, reaching clinically translatable endpoints from these complex multi-omics datasets is an arduous task. Network biology, a branch of systems biology that utilises mathematical graph theory to represent, integrate and analyse biological data through networks, will be key to addressing this challenge. In this narrative review, we provide an overview of various types of network biology approaches that have been utilised in IBD including protein-protein interaction networks, metabolic networks, gene regulatory networks and gene co-expression networks. We also include examples of multi-layered networks that have combined various network types to gain deeper insights into IBD pathogenesis. Finally, we discuss the need to incorporate other data sources including metabolomic, histopathological, and high-quality clinical meta-data. Together with more robust network data integration and analysis frameworks, such efforts have the potential to realise the key goal of precision medicine in IBD.

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gene coexpression networkgene regulatory networkinflammatory bowel diseasemetabolic networkmultilayered networknetwork biologyprecision medicineprotein-protein interaction network

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PMID34745229
PMCPMC8566351

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