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Title

Application of centrality measures in the identification of critical genes in diabetes mellitus

 

Authors

Chintagunta Ambedkar1, Kiran Kumar Reddi2, Naresh Babu Muppalaneni3 & Duggineni Kalyani3*

 

Affiliation

1S R K Institute of Technology, Vijayawada; 2Krishna University, Machilipatnam; 3C R Rao AIMSCS, Hyderabad

 

Email

kalyani.duggineni@gmail.com; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Hypothesis

 

Date

Received January 02, 2015; Accepted January 31, 2015; Published February 28, 2015

 

Abstract

The connectivity of a protein and its structure is related to its functional properties. Many experimental approaches have been employed for the identification of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) associated candidate genes. Therefore, it is of interest to use various graph centrality measures integrated with the genes associated with the human Diabetes Mellitus network for the identification of potential targets. We used 2728 genes known to cause Diabetes Mellitus from Jensenlab (Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Denmark) for this analysis. A protein-protein interaction network was further constructed using a tool Centralities in Biological Networks (CentiBiN) with 1020 nodes after eliminating the duplicates, parallel edges, self-loop edges and unknown Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) IDS. We used fourteen centralities measures which are useful in identifying the structural characteristic of individuals in the network. The results of the centrality measures are highly correlated. Thus, we identified genes that are critically associated with DM. We further report the top ten genes of all fourteen centrality measures for further consideration as targets for DM.

 

Citation

Ambedkar et al. Bioinformation 11(2): 090-095 (2015)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.