Introduction

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a complex disorder associated with multiple genetic, epigenetic, developmental, and environmental factors. Animal models of type 2 diabetes differ based on diet, drug treatment, and gene knockouts, and yet all display the clinical hallmarks of hyperglycemia and insulin resistance in peripheral tissue. The recent advances in gene-expression microarray technologies present an unprecedented opportunity to study type 2 diabetes mellitus at a genome-wide scale and across different models. To date, a key challenge has been to identify the biological processes or signaling pathways that play significant roles in the disorder. Here, using a network-based analysis methodology, we identified two sets of genes, associated with insulin signaling and a network of nuclear receptors, which are recurrent in a statistically significant number of diabetes and insulin resistance models and transcriptionally altered across diverse tissue types. We additionally identified a network of protein-protein interactions between members from the two gene sets that may facilitate signaling between them. Taken together, the results illustrate the benefits of integrating high-throughput microarray studies, together with protein-protein interaction networks, in elucidating the underlying biological processes associated with a complex disorder.

Publications

  1. Network-based analysis of affected biological processes in type 2 diabetes models.
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    Liu M, Liberzon A, Kong SW, Lai WR, Park PJ, Kohane IS, Kasif S, 2007-06-01 - PLoS genetics

Credits

  1. Manway Liu
    Developer

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, United States of America

  2. Arthur Liberzon
    Developer

  3. Sek Won Kong
    Developer

  4. Weil R Lai
    Developer

  5. Peter J Park
    Developer

  6. Isaac S Kohane
    Developer

  7. Simon Kasif
    Investigator

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