| Title: | A prototype-augmented graph representation learning framework for identifying brain disorder-associated genes and facilitating drug repurposing |
| Journal: | PLOS Computational Biology |
| Published: | 29 May 2026 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42213730/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014323 |
Publication 19872
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Abstract
Many genetic loci were identified as associated with neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative disorders by Genome-wide association studies (GWAS). How these loci impact these diseases is unclear. Advances in deep-learning approaches and multi-omics data have the potential to link GWAS findings with disease mechanisms. Here, we proposed the Multi-omics Graph Transformer Network (MOGT), a semi-supervised graph neural network that leverages graph representation learning to model biological networks derived from multi-omics data to predict disease-associated genes. MOGT outperforms the current approaches in disease gene prediction for two psychiatric disorders and three neurodegenerative/neurological diseases. High-risk genes (HRGs) for Parkinson's disease (PD) predicted by MOGT were used to drug discovery by integrating with the CMAP database. Finally, 10 drugs were identified as potential candidates. Among them, the effect of drug UK-356618 was experimentally verified in a primary neuron model, showing that UK-356618 reversed the abnormal expression of PD-associated genes and improved the cell-level phenotypes of PD. Together, these results indicate that MOGT can be used to identify HRGs for brain disorders, and these predicted HRGs provide high-level insights into the mechanisms and treatments of brain disorders.</p>
10 Keywords
- Animals
- Brain Diseases
- Computational Biology
- Drug Repositioning
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Graph Neural Networks
- Humans
- Parkinson Disease
- Representation Machine Learning
5 Authors
- Jiafang Li
- Yifei Li
- Siying Lin
- Jiahua Rao
- Huiying Zhao
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
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| 51732 | Genetic studies of Hereditary Hearing Loss |
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