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  Volume 15 (3): 231-242, 2014.


 Characterization of mouse insulin gene through genetic and network approaches

 

Zeeshan Arif1 and C.K. Verma1

 

1Department of Mathematics, Computer Applications and Bioinformatics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India

 

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Arif Z, Verma CK., Characterization of mouse insulin gene through genetic and network approaches, Onl J Bioinform., 15 (3): 231-242, 2014. The genetic resemblance between mice and humans makes the mouse a suitable mammalian model system for obesity and diabetes. A model for integrating clinical traits, genetic marker data and gene expression data is described. Instead of concentrating on individual genes, a systems level view of a module of genes related to body insulin is described. The resulting model allows one to characterize insulin related genes utilizing an intra-modular connectivity genetic network by using WGCNA (an R package) for performing weighted gene co-expression network analysis. This integrative genomics methodology provides new insights into the relationship between gene expression and body insulin or weight.

 

Keywords: Diabetes (T2DM), Obesity, Impaired Glucose Tolerance, Modules, Intramodular connectivity.


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