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Conference Object In-Silico Methods to Identify Common MicroRNAs and Pathways of Neuromuscular Diseases(IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2019-04) Yazici, Miray Unlu; Menges, Evrim Aksu; Ulum, Yeliz Z. Akkaya; Hayta, Burcu Balci; Bakir-Gungor, Burcu; Balcihayta, Burcu; Akkaya Ulum, Yeliz Z.Neuromuscular disorders (NMD) are a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by the loss of function of the peripheral nerves and muscles. However, there are no effective and widespread therapeutic approaches to prevent or delay the progression of these disease types. microRNAs (miRNAs) which cause significant changes in gene expression by binding to target messenger RNAs (mRNAs), are known to have an effect on disease mechanisms. In this study, by integrating different bioinformatics methods, we aim to find miRNAs, target genes and pathways related to a group of neuromuscular diseases. For this purpose, we determined 17 miRNAs that show significant expression changes between patient and healthy groups; predicted target genes of these miRNAs; and identified affected pathways using subnetwork discovery, functional enrichment based algorithms. In our study, we integrated different in-silico approaches that proceed in top-down manner or bottom-up manner. The identified candidate miRNAs, genes and pathways, which could help to explain neuromuscular disease development mechanisms, are now under investigation in wet-lab.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1A New Method to Identify Affected Pathway Subnetworks and Clusters in Colon Cancer(IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2019-09) Goy, Gokhan; Yazici, Miray Unlu; Bakir-Gungor, BurenNowadays new technological developments that play an important role in the production of big data have brought about the interpretation, sharing and storage of data related to complex diseases. Combining multi-omic data in different molecular levels is potentially important for understanding the biological origin of complex diseases. One of these complex diseases is cancer of different types, which has one of the highest causes of death worldwide. The integration of multiple omic data in the framework of a comprehensive analysis and identification of relevant pathways contribute to the development of therapeutic approaches related to disease. In this study, RNA and methylation data (genes and p values) of colon adenocarcinoma were obtained from TCGA data portal and combined with Fisher's method. While protein subnetworks affected by the disease were identified by using subnetwork algorithm, pathways related to the disease and genes associated with these pathways were determined by functional enrichment analysis. Using gene-pathway relationship matrix, kappa scores of pathways were determined by similarity calculation. In this way, the pathways were clustered according to the hierarchically optimal number, as a result, the most important pathway clusters and related genes that are effective in disease formation identified.
