Charles R. Farber, Ph.D. Associate Professor, PHS and BMG Associate Director, Center for Public Health Genomics @cr_farber [email protected] farberlab.com UVa School of Medicine Research Retreat February 4th, 2017 Slides on speakerdeck.com
ultimately transmitted through molecular, cellular, and physiological networks to enable the higher-order functions and emergent properties of biological systems.” Nadeau and Dudley. 2011. Science
(N~80K) (Estrada, K., et al. 2012. Nature Genetics) Bone transcriptomic profiles from 96 inbred mouse strains (Calabrese et al. 2012. PLOS Genetics) Genome-wide co-expression network
regulate osteoblast activity and BMD Module 9 - 354 genes 1. Enriched for Osteoblast Differentiation Genes (P=3.2 x 10-5) 2. Highly expressed in osteoblasts 3. Module expression was correlated with BMD (P=1.4 x 10-6) 4. Knockout of hub genes impact osteoblast differentiation and BMD
least partially responsible for a BMD GWAS locus on Chr. 14. • Integrating GWAS and network data can inform GWAS and provide systems-level context Genetics Systems Genetics Systems-Based Precision Therapeutics
Olivia Sabik • Basel Al-Barghouthi • Ingrid Braenne, Ph.D. • Robert Rotzin Maine Medical Center Research Institute • Cliff Rosen, M.D. Yale • Mark C. Horowitz, Ph.D. • Steve Tommasini, Ph.D. University of Maryland • Joe Stains, Ph.D. John Hopkins • Tom Clemens, Ph.D.