Network biology concepts in complex disease comorbidities

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Abstract

The co-occurrence of diseases can inform the underlying network biology of shared and multifunctional genes and pathways. In addition, comorbidities help to elucidate the effects of external exposures, such as diet, lifestyle and patient care. With worldwide health transaction data now often being collected electronically, disease co-occurrences are starting to be quantitatively characterized. Linking network dynamics to the real-life, non-ideal patient in whom diseases co-occur and interact provides a valuable basis for generating hypotheses on molecular disease mechanisms, and provides knowledge that can facilitate drug repurposing and the development of targeted therapeutic strategies.

Original languageEnglish
JournalNature Reviews. Genetics
Volume17
Pages (from-to)615–629
ISSN1471-0056
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2016

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