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ArticleiScience2022

Unfolding the genotype-to-phenotype black box of cardiovascular diseases through cross-scale modeling.

Xi Xi, Haochen Li, Shengquan Chen, Tingting Lv, Tianxing Ma, Rui Jiang, Ping Zhang, Wing Hung Wong, Xuegong Zhang

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Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Xi XiMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST / Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Haochen LiSchool of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Shengquan ChenMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST / Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Tingting LvDepartment of Cardiology, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 102218, China.
Tianxing MaMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST / Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Rui JiangMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST / Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Ping ZhangDepartment of Cardiology, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 102218, China.
Wing Hung WongDepartments of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Xuegong ZhangMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST / Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Tsinghua University · CNStanford University · US

Funding

Special EquipmentP50HG007735 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, HOWARD Y · 2014 to 2018
$15.2M
Center for Personal Dynamic RegulomesRM1HG007735 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, HOWARD Y · 2019 to 2023
$13.8M
Statistical methods for gene regulatory analysis and single cell genomicsR01HG010359 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, WING H. · 2019 to 2022
$1.5M
NHGRI NIH HHS P50 HG007735NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010359NHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG007735
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex traits such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the results of complicated processes jointly affected by genetic and environmental factors. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified genetic variants associated with diseases but usually did not reveal the underlying mechanisms. There could be many intermediate steps at epigenetic, transcriptomic, and cellular scales inside the black box of genotype-phenotype associations. In this article, we present a machine-learning-based cross-scale framework GRPath to decipher putative causal paths (pcPaths) from genetic variants to disease phenotypes by integrating multiple omics data. Applying GRPath on CVD, we identified 646 and 549 pcPaths linking putative causal regions, variants, and gene expressions in specific cell types for two types of heart failure, respectively. The findings suggest new understandings of coronary heart disease. Our work promoted the modeling of tissue- and cell type-specific cross-scale regulation to uncover mechanisms behind disease-associated variants, and provided new findings on the molecular mechanisms of CVD.

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Cardiovascular medicineComplex system biologyHealth sciencesMachine learning

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PMID35992073
PMCPMC9386115
OpenAlexW4286252344

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