An integrated genetics approach for identifying protein signal pathways of Alzheimer's disease

Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2011 Apr;14(4):371-8. doi: 10.1080/10255842.2010.482525.

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered one of the most common age-associated neurodegenerative disorders, affecting millions of senior people worldwide. Combination of protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis and gene expression studies provides a better insight into AD. A computational approach was developed in our work to identify protein signal pathways between amyloid precursor proteins and tau proteins, which are well known as important proteins for AD. First, a modified LA-SEN method, called the network-constrained regularisation analysis, was applied to microarray data from a transgenic mouse model and AD patients. Then protein pathways were constructed based on an integer linear programming model to integrate microarray data and the PPI database. Important pathways of AD, including some cancer-related pathways, were identified finally.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Alzheimer Disease / genetics
  • Alzheimer Disease / metabolism*
  • Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / genetics
  • Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / metabolism
  • Animals
  • Gene Expression Profiling*
  • Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 / genetics
  • Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 / metabolism
  • Linear Models
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Proteins / genetics
  • Proteins / metabolism*
  • Signal Transduction*
  • tau Proteins / genetics
  • tau Proteins / metabolism

Substances

  • Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor
  • Proteins
  • tau Proteins
  • Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3
  • glycogen synthase kinase 3 alpha