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Submitted on May 30, 2003
Accepted on August 13, 2003
A Gene Coexpression Network for Global Discovery of Conserved Genetic Modules
Joshua M. Stuart 1,Eran Segal 2,Daphne Koller 2*,Stuart K. Kim 3*
1 Stanford Medical Informatics, 251 Campus Drive, MSOB X-215, Stanford, CA 94305-5329, USA. 2 Computer Science Department, Gates Building 1A, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA. 3 Departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5329, USA.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: koller{at}cs.stanford.edu, kim{at}cmgm.stanford.edu.
To elucidate gene function on a global scale, we identifiedpairs of genes that are coexpressed over 3182 DNA microarraysfrom humans, flies, worms, and yeast. We found 22,163 such coexpressionrelationships, each of which has been conserved across evolution.This conservation implies that the coexpression of these genepairs confers a selective advantage and therefore that thesegenes are functionally related. Many of these relationshipsprovide strong evidence for the involvement of new genes incore biological functions such as the cell cycle, secretion,and protein expression. We experimentally confirmed the predictionsimplied by some of these links and identified cell proliferationfunctions for several genes. We assembled these links into agene coexpression network consisting of 12 large components,and found several that were animal-specific as well as interrelationshipsbetween newly evolved and ancient modules.
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