Alzheimer's disease and HIV associated dementia related genes: I. location and function.

Autor: Shapshak P; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, FL 33613, USA. pshapshak@gmail.com, Rodriguez HE, Kayathri R, Levine A, Chiappelli F, Minagar A
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Bioinformation [Bioinformation] 2008 May 29; Vol. 2 (8), pp. 348-57. Date of Electronic Publication: 2008 May 29.
DOI: 10.6026/97320630002348
Abstrakt: Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, has few clinical similarities to HIV-1-associated dementia (HAD). However, genes were identified related among these dementias. Discovering correlations between gene function, expression, and structure in the human genome continues to aid in understanding the similarities between pathogenesis of these two dementing disorders. The current work attempts to identify relationships between these dementias in spite of their clinical differences, based on genomic structure, function, and expression. In this comparative study, the NCBI Entrez Genome Database is used to detect these relationships. This approach serves as a model for future diagnosis and treatment in the clinical arena as well as suggesting parallel pathways of disease mechanisms. Identifying a correlation among expression, structure, and function of genes involved in pathogenesis of these dementing disorders, may assist to understand better their interaction with each other and the human genome.
Databáze: MEDLINE