Gene networks from DNA microarray data: centrality and lethality

Details Gene networks from DNA microarray data: centrality and lethality Gene networks from DNA microarray data: centrality and lethality

2002-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207345v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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We construct a gene network based on expression data from DNA microarray experiments, by establishing a link between two genes whenever the Pearson's correlation coefficient between their expression profiles is higher than a certain cutoff. The resulting connectivity distribution is compatible with a power-law decay with exponent ~1, corrected by an exponential cutoff at large connectivity. The biological relevance of such network is demonstrated by showing that there is a strong statistical correlation between high connectivity number and lethality: in close analogy to what happens for protein interaction networks, essential genes are strongly overerpresented among the hubs of the network, that is the genes connected to many other genes.

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