title: Differentially Coexpressed Disease Gene Identification Based on Gene Coexpression Network.
abstract: Screening disease-related genes by analyzing gene expression data has become a popular theme. Traditional disease-related gene selection methods always focus on identifying differentially expressed gene between case samples and a control group. These traditional methods may not fully consider the changes of interactions between genes at different cell states and the dynamic processes of gene expression levels during the disease progression. However, in order to understand the mechanism of disease, it is important to explore the dynamic changes of interactions between genes in biological networks at different cell states. In this study, we designed a novel framework to identify disease-related genes and developed a differentially coexpressed disease-related gene identification method based on gene coexpression network (DCGN) to screen differentially coexpressed genes. We firstly constructed phase-specific gene coexpression network using time-series gene expression data and defined the conception of differential coexpression of genes in coexpression network. Then, we designed two metrics to measure the value of gene differential coexpression according to the change of local topological structures between different phase-specific networks. Finally, we conducted meta-analysis of gene differential coexpression based on the rank-product method. Experimental results demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of DCGN and the superior performance of DCGN over other popular disease-related gene selection methods through real-world gene expression data sets.
authors.affiliation: College of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China.
authors.forename: Xue
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9111-5529
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: College of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China.
authors.forename: Han
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8498-3451
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: College of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China.
authors.forename: Xiongwen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Quan
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004194:Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000235:genetics*; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis