In Silico Analysis Of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Of Endocytosis Genes Involved In Alzheimer's Disease

From genome wide association studies on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), it has been shown that many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes of different pathways affect the disease risk. One of the pathways is endocytosis, and variants in these genes may affect their functions in amyloid precursor...

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spelling my-mmu-ep.77492020-09-21T20:16:39Z In Silico Analysis Of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Of Endocytosis Genes Involved In Alzheimer's Disease 2019-07 Tey, Han Jieh QH Natural history From genome wide association studies on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), it has been shown that many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes of different pathways affect the disease risk. One of the pathways is endocytosis, and variants in these genes may affect their functions in amyloid precursor protein (APP) trafficking, amyloid-beta (Aβ) production as well as its clearance in the brain. This study used computational methods to predict the effect of novel SNPs, including untranslated region (UTR) variants, splice site variants, synonymous SNPs (sSNPs) and nonsynonymous SNPs (nsSNPs) in three endocytosis genes associated with AD, namely PICALM, SYNJ1 and SH3KBP1. All the variants’ information was retrieved from the Ensembl genome database, following which different variation prediction analyses were performed. UTRScan was used to predict UTR variants while MaxEntScan was used to predict splice site variants. Meta-analysis by PredictSNP2 was used to predict sSNPs. Parallel prediction analyses by five different software packages including SIFT, PolyPhen-2, MutationAssessor, I-Mutant-2.0 and SNPs&GO were used to predict the effects of nsSNPs. The level of evolutionary conservation of deleterious nsSNPs was further analysed using ConSurf server. Mutant protein structures of deleterious nsSNPs were modelled and refined using SPARKS-X and ModRefiner for structural comparison. 2019-07 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/7749/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/library2/diglib/mmuetd/ masters Multimedia University Faculty of Information Science & Technology
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Tey, Han Jieh
In Silico Analysis Of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Of Endocytosis Genes Involved In Alzheimer's Disease
description From genome wide association studies on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), it has been shown that many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes of different pathways affect the disease risk. One of the pathways is endocytosis, and variants in these genes may affect their functions in amyloid precursor protein (APP) trafficking, amyloid-beta (Aβ) production as well as its clearance in the brain. This study used computational methods to predict the effect of novel SNPs, including untranslated region (UTR) variants, splice site variants, synonymous SNPs (sSNPs) and nonsynonymous SNPs (nsSNPs) in three endocytosis genes associated with AD, namely PICALM, SYNJ1 and SH3KBP1. All the variants’ information was retrieved from the Ensembl genome database, following which different variation prediction analyses were performed. UTRScan was used to predict UTR variants while MaxEntScan was used to predict splice site variants. Meta-analysis by PredictSNP2 was used to predict sSNPs. Parallel prediction analyses by five different software packages including SIFT, PolyPhen-2, MutationAssessor, I-Mutant-2.0 and SNPs&GO were used to predict the effects of nsSNPs. The level of evolutionary conservation of deleterious nsSNPs was further analysed using ConSurf server. Mutant protein structures of deleterious nsSNPs were modelled and refined using SPARKS-X and ModRefiner for structural comparison.
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author Tey, Han Jieh
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title In Silico Analysis Of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Of Endocytosis Genes Involved In Alzheimer's Disease
title_short In Silico Analysis Of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Of Endocytosis Genes Involved In Alzheimer's Disease
title_full In Silico Analysis Of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Of Endocytosis Genes Involved In Alzheimer's Disease
title_fullStr In Silico Analysis Of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Of Endocytosis Genes Involved In Alzheimer's Disease
title_full_unstemmed In Silico Analysis Of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Of Endocytosis Genes Involved In Alzheimer's Disease
title_sort in silico analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms of endocytosis genes involved in alzheimer's disease
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Faculty of Information Science & Technology
publishDate 2019
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