Abu-Elmagd Muhammad, Assidi Mourad, Alrefaei Abdulmajeed F, Rebai Ahmed
Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Nov 21;10:1016400. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.1016400. eCollection 2022.
Significant advances have been recently made in the development of the genetic and genomic platforms. This has greatly contributed to a better understanding of gene expression and regulation machinery. Consequently, this led to considerable progress in unraveling evidence of the genotype-phenotype correlation between normal/abnormal embryonic development and human disease complexity. For example, advanced genomic tools such as next-generation sequencing, and microarray-based CGH have substantially helped in the identification of gene and copy number variants associated with diseases as well as in the discovery of causal gene mutations. In addition, bioinformatic analysis tools of genome annotation and comparison have greatly aided in data analysis for the interpretation of the genetic variants at the individual level. This has unlocked potential possibilities for real advances toward new therapies in personalized medicine for the targeted treatment of human diseases. However, each of these genomic and bioinformatics tools has its limitations and hence further efforts are required to implement novel approaches to overcome these limitations. It could be possible that the use of more than one platform for genotype-phenotype deep analysis is an effective approach to disentangling the cause and treatment of the disease complexities. Our research topic aimed at deciphering these complexities by shedding some light on the recent applications of the basic and advanced genetic/genomic and bioinformatics approaches. These include studying gene-gene, protein-protein, and gene-environment interactions. We, in addition, aimed at a better understanding of the link between normal/abnormal embryonic development and the cause of human disease induction.
近年来,基因和基因组平台的发展取得了重大进展。这极大地有助于更好地理解基因表达和调控机制。因此,在揭示正常/异常胚胎发育与人类疾病复杂性之间的基因型-表型相关性证据方面取得了相当大的进展。例如,先进的基因组工具,如下一代测序和基于微阵列的比较基因组杂交,在识别与疾病相关的基因和拷贝数变异以及发现致病基因突变方面发挥了重要作用。此外,基因组注释和比较的生物信息学分析工具极大地辅助了个体水平上遗传变异解读的数据分析。这为个性化医学中针对人类疾病的靶向治疗取得新进展开启了潜在的可能性。然而,这些基因组和生物信息学工具都有其局限性,因此需要进一步努力实施新方法来克服这些局限性。使用多个平台进行基因型-表型深度分析可能是解开疾病复杂性的原因和治疗方法的有效途径。我们的研究主题旨在通过阐明基础和先进的遗传/基因组及生物信息学方法的最新应用来解读这些复杂性。这些包括研究基因-基因、蛋白质-蛋白质和基因-环境相互作用。此外,我们旨在更好地理解正常/异常胚胎发育与人类疾病诱发原因之间的联系。