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ArticleBMC biology2024

A computational model of circRNA-associated diseases based on a graph neural network: prediction and case studies for follow-up experimental validation.

Mengting Niu, Chunyu Wang, Zhanguo Zhang, Quan Zou

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Article in BMC biology, 2024. 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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4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Mengting NiuSchool of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Chunyu WangFaculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150000, Heilongjiang, China.
Zhanguo ZhangHepatic Surgery Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan, 430030, China. 15136413177@163.com.
Quan ZouInstitute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 4 Block 2 North Jianshe Road, Chengdu, 610054, China. zouquan@nclab.net.
Harbin Institute of Technology · CNHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CNShenzhen Polytechnic · CNUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China · CN

Funding

Key Field of Department of Education of Guangdong Province 2022ZDZX2082National Natural Science Foundation of China 62201129National Natural Science Foundation of China 62231013National Natural Science Foundation of China 62271329National Natural Science Foundation of China 62302341National Natural Science Foundation of China 62303328National Natural Science Foundation of China 62372332Research fund of Shenzhen Polytechnic University 6022310036KResearch fund of Shenzhen Polytechnic University 6022331007KResearch fund of Shenzhen Polytechnic University 6023310037Kthe National Key R&D Program of China 2022ZD0117700the Special Science Foundation of Quzhou 2023D036
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Abstract

backgroundCircular RNAs (circRNAs) have been confirmed to play a vital role in the occurrence and development of diseases. Exploring the relationship between circRNAs and diseases is of far-reaching significance for studying etiopathogenesis and treating diseases. To this end, based on the graph Markov neural network algorithm (GMNN) constructed in our previous work GMNN2CD, we further considered the multisource biological data that affects the association between circRNA and disease and developed an updated web server CircDA and based on the human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissue data to verify the prediction results of CircDA.

resultsCircDA is built on a Tumarkov-based deep learning framework. The algorithm regards biomolecules as nodes and the interactions between molecules as edges, reasonably abstracts multiomics data, and models them as a heterogeneous biomolecular association network, which can reflect the complex relationship between different biomolecules. Case studies using literature data from HCC, cervical, and gastric cancers demonstrate that the CircDA predictor can identify missing associations between known circRNAs and diseases, and using the quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) experiment of HCC in human tissue samples, it was found that five circRNAs were significantly differentially expressed, which proved that CircDA can predict diseases related to new circRNAs.

conclusionsThis efficient computational prediction and case analysis with sufficient feedback allows us to identify circRNA-associated diseases and disease-associated circRNAs. Our work provides a method to predict circRNA-associated diseases and can provide guidance for the association of diseases with certain circRNAs. For ease of use, an online prediction server ( http://server.malab.cn/CircDA ) is provided, and the code is open-sourced ( https://github.com/nmt315320/CircDA.git ) for the convenience of algorithm improvement.

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Carcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsComputational BiologyComputer SimulationFollow-Up StudiesHumansNeural Networks, ComputerRNA, CircularRNA, CircularBiological experiment verificationBiological networkscircRNADiseaseGraph Markov neural networkVariational inference

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PMID38281919
PMCPMC10823650
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