Nicki Tiffin * , Euan Adie 1 , Frances Turner 2 , Han G. Brunner 3 , Marc A. van Driel 4 , Martin Oti 5 , Nuria Lopez-Bigas 6 , Christos Ouzounis 7 , Carolina Perez-Iratxeta 8 , Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro 8 , 9 , Adebowale Adeyemo 10 , 11 , Mary Elizabeth Patti 12 , Colin A. M. Semple 2 , Winston Hide
6 June 2006
Genome-wide experimental methods to identify disease genes, such as linkage analysis and association studies, generate increasingly large candidate gene sets for which comprehensive empirical analysis is impractical. Computational methods employ data from a variety of sources to identify the most likely candidate disease genes from these gene sets. Here, we review seven independent computational disease gene prioritization methods, and then apply them in concert to the analysis of 9556 positional candidate genes for type 2 diabetes (T2D) and the related trait obesity. We generate and analyse a list of nine primary candidate genes for T2D genes and five for obesity. Two genes, LPL and BCKDHA, are common to these two sets. We also present a set of secondary candidates for T2D (94 genes) and for obesity (116 genes) with 58 genes in common to both diseases.
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