Drug repositioning for orphan genetic diseases through Conserved Anticoexpressed Gene Clusters (CAGCs)

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Molineris, Ivan ^a   Ala, Ugo ^a   Provero, Paolo ^a   Di Cunto, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; DRUG REPOSITIONING; EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; EXPRESSION PROFILE; GENE EXPRESSION DATA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES; PATHOLOGIC CONDITIONS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DISEASES; DRUG REPOSITIONING; DRUG THERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE; DRUG REPOSITIONING; DRUG THERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84885142689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-288     Document Type: Article

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