Functional profiling and gene expression analysis of chromosomal copy number alterations.

@article{citeulike:1549810, abstract = {Contrarily to the traditional view in which only one or a few key genes were supposed to be the causative factors of diseases, we discuss the importance of considering groups of functionally related genes in the study of pathologies characterised by chromosomal copy number alterations. Recent observations have reported the existence of regions in higher eukaryotic chromosomes (including humans) containing genes of related function that show a high degree of coregulation. Copy number alterations will consequently affect to clusters of functionally related genes, which will be the final causative agents of the diseased phenotype, in many cases. Therefore, we propose that the functional profiling of the regions affected by copy number alterations must be an important aspect to take into account in the understanding of this type of pathologies. To illustrate this, we present an integrated study of DNA copy number variations, gene expression along with the functional profiling of chromosomal regions in a case of multiple myeloma.}, address = {Department of Bioinformatics, Centro de Investigaci\'{o}n Pr\'{i}ncipe Felipe (CIPF), Valencia, E-46013, Spain.}, author = {Conde, L. and Montaner, D. and Burguet-Castell, J. and T\'{a}rraga, J. and Al-Shahrour, F. and Dopazo, J. }, citeulike-article-id = {1549810}, issn = {0973-2063}, journal = {Bioinformation}, keywords = {cgh, chromosome, copy\_number, expression, microarray}, number = {10}, pages = {432--435}, posted-at = {2007-08-09 12:37:48}, priority = {0}, title = {Functional profiling and gene expression analysis of chromosomal copy number alterations.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17597935}, volume = {1}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1549810 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1549810 TI - Functional profiling and gene expression analysis of chromosomal copy number alterations. JF - Bioinformation VL - 1 IS - 10 SP - 432 EP - 435 AD - Department of Bioinformatics, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF), Valencia, E-46013, Spain. SN - 0973-2063 N2 - Contrarily to the traditional view in which only one or a few key genes were supposed to be the causative factors of diseases, we discuss the importance of considering groups of functionally related genes in the study of pathologies characterised by chromosomal copy number alterations. Recent observations have reported the existence of regions in higher eukaryotic chromosomes (including humans) containing genes of related function that show a high degree of coregulation. Copy number alterations will consequently affect to clusters of functionally related genes, which will be the final causative agents of the diseased phenotype, in many cases. Therefore, we propose that the functional profiling of the regions affected by copy number alterations must be an important aspect to take into account in the understanding of this type of pathologies. To illustrate this, we present an integrated study of DNA copy number variations, gene expression along with the functional profiling of chromosomal regions in a case of multiple myeloma. KW - cgh KW - chromosome KW - copy_number KW - expression KW - microarray AU - Conde, L AU - Montaner, D AU - Burguet-Castell, J AU - Tárraga, J AU - Al-Shahrour, F AU - Dopazo, J PY - 2007/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17597935 ER -