Pivotal role of the muscle-contraction pathway in cryptorchidism and evidence for genomic connections with cardiomyopathy pathways in RASopathies

BMC Medical Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Cannistraci, Carlo V ^a,b,c   Ogorevc, Jernej ^d   Zorc, Minja ^d   Ravasi, Timothy ^a   Dovc, Peter ^d   Kunej, Tanja ^d  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Comparative integratomics; Cryptorchidism; Muscle contraction pathway; Protein protein interactions; RASopathy; Systems biology; Undescended testes

Indexed keywords

BETA CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMICS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CRYPTORCHISM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTEGRATOMICS; INTERNET; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; RASOPATHY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DATA MINING; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84873594566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17558794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-8794-6-5     Document Type: Article

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