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Genome Research
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Genome Research
Article . 2009 . Peer-reviewed
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Genome Research
Article . 2009
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Exploring the human genome with functional maps

Authors: Huttenhower, C; Haley, E M; Hibbs, M A; Dumeaux, V; Barrett, D R; Coller, H A; Troyanskaya, O G;

Exploring the human genome with functional maps

Abstract

Human genomic data of many types are readily available, but the complexity and scale of human molecular biology make it difficult to integrate this body of data, understand it from a systems level, and apply it to the study of specific pathways or genetic disorders. An investigator could best explore a particular protein, pathway, or disease if given a functional map summarizing the data and interactions most relevant to his or her area of interest. Using a regularized Bayesian integration system, we provide maps of functional activity and interaction networks in over 200 areas of human cellular biology, each including information from ∼30,000 genome-scale experiments pertaining to ∼25,000 human genes. Key to these analyses is the ability to efficiently summarize this large data collection from a variety of biologically informative perspectives: prediction of protein function and functional modules, cross-talk among biological processes, and association of novel genes and pathways with known genetic disorders. In addition to providing maps of each of these areas, we also identify biological processes active in each data set. Experimental investigation of five specific genes, AP3B1, ATP6AP1, BLOC1S1, LAMP2, and RAB11A, has confirmed novel roles for these proteins in the proper initiation of macroautophagy in amino acid-starved human fibroblasts. Our functional maps can be explored using HEFalMp (Human Experimental/Functional Mapper), a web interface allowing interactive visualization and investigation of this large body of information.

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570, Vacuolar Proton-Translocating ATPases, Signal-Transduction, Gene-Expression-Profiling, Adaptor Protein Complex 3, Immunoblotting, Computational-Biology, 610, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Nerve-Tissue-Proteins, Bayes-Theorem, Microscopy-Fluorescence, Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 2, Autophagy, Humans, Genome-Human, Adaptor Protein Complex beta Subunits, Gene Regulatory Networks, Amino Acids, Amino-Acids, Genome, Human, Gene Expression Profiling, Chromosome Mapping, Computational Biology, Bayes Theorem, Fibroblasts, Lysosomal Membrane Proteins, Gene-Regulatory-Networks, Vacuolar-Proton-Translocating-ATPases, Lysosome-Associated-Membrane-Glycoproteins, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Chromosome-Mapping, Adaptor-Protein-Complex-beta-Subunits, Algorithms, Signal Transduction

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