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IJBBB 2015 Vol.5(3): 140-148 ISSN: 2010-3638
doi: 10.17706/ijbbb.2015.5.3.140-148

Analysis of Human miRNAs, Gene Targets and Diseases Network

Kwan-Yau Cheung, Kin-Hong Lee, Kwong-Sak Leung
Abstract—Micro-RNAs are small non-coding RNAs having important biological functions such as gene regulation and disease causality. Network analysis on miRNA-related network can help understanding gene regulation mechanism and propose cures for miRNAs related diseases. In this paper, we integrated miRNA-related data from three state of the art databases, miRTarBase, miRBase and HMDD v2.0 to construct a human miRNAs, gene targets and diseases network. We then performed network statistics analysis, disease cluster analysis and gene-disease association analysis on the network. The results show that there exists community structures in the network, similar disease are associated with similar miRNAs with enriched biological functions and gene-disease pairs connected by multiple paths in the network are more likely to have biological association.

Index Terms—Network analysis, miRNAs, gene targets, diseases.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong.

Cite: Kwan-Yau Cheung, Kin-Hong Lee, Kwong-Sak Leung, "Analysis of Human miRNAs, Gene Targets and Diseases Network," International Journal of Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 140-148, 2015.

General Information

ISSN: 2010-3638 (Online)
Abbreviated Title: Int. J. Biosci. Biochem. Bioinform.
Frequency: Quarterly 
DOI: 10.17706/IJBBB
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Ebtisam Heikal 
Abstracting/ Indexing:  Electronic Journals Library, Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS), Engineering & Technology Digital Library, Google Scholar, and ProQuest.
E-mail: ijbbb@iap.org
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