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ArticleScientific reports2022

Visualizing novel connections and genetic similarities across diseases using a network-medicine based approach.

Brian Ferolito, Italo Faria do Valle, Hanna Gerlovin, Lauren Costa, Juan P Casas, J Michael Gaziano, David R Gagnon, Edmon Begoli, Albert-László Barabási, Kelly Cho

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Brian Ferolito *VA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center, (MAVERIC), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02130, USA. brian.ferolito@va.gov.
Italo Faria do Valle *VA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center, (MAVERIC), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02130, USA.
Hanna GerlovinVA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center, (MAVERIC), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02130, USA.
Lauren CostaVA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center, (MAVERIC), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02130, USA.
Juan P CasasVA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center, (MAVERIC), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02130, USA.
J Michael GazianoVA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center, (MAVERIC), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02130, USA.
David R GagnonVA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center, (MAVERIC), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02130, USA.
Edmon BegoliOak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, 37830, USA.
Albert-László BarabásiCenter for Complex Network Research, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, 02115, USA.
Kelly Cho *VA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center, (MAVERIC), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02130, USA.

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VA MVP000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the genetic relationships between human disorders could lead to better treatment and prevention strategies, especially for individuals with multiple comorbidities. A common resource for studying genetic-disease relationships is the GWAS Catalog, a large and well curated repository of SNP-trait associations from various studies and populations. Some of these populations are contained within mega-biobanks such as the Million Veteran Program (MVP), which has enabled the genetic classification of several diseases in a large well-characterized and heterogeneous population. Here we aim to provide a network of the genetic relationships among diseases and to demonstrate the utility of quantifying the extent to which a given resource such as MVP has contributed to the discovery of such relations. We use a network-based approach to evaluate shared variants among thousands of traits in the GWAS Catalog repository. Our results indicate many more novel disease relationships that did not exist in early studies and demonstrate that the network can reveal clusters of diseases mechanistically related. Finally, we show novel disease connections that emerge when MVP data is included, highlighting methodology that can be used to indicate the contributions of a given biobank.

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyPolymorphism, Single NucleotideBiological Specimen BanksComorbidityComputer SimulationHumansPhenotype

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PMID36050444
PMCPMC9436158

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