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INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR PATHWAYS AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANOMALIES ASSOCIATED WITH CONGENITAL ZIKA SYNDROME
Microcefalia
Desenvolvimento ósseo
Análise de cluster
Mapa de interação de proteínas
Microcephaly
Bone development
Gene networks
Cluster analysis
Protein interaction maps
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Congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) comprises a set of clinical manifestations that can be presented by neonates born to mothers infected by the Zika virus (ZIKV). CZS-associated phenotypes include neurological, skeletal, and systemic alterations and long-term developmental sequelae. One of the most frequently reported clinical conditions is microcephaly characterized by a reduction in head circumference and cognitive complications. Nevertheless, the associations among the diverse signaling pathways underlying CZS phenotypes remain to be elucidated. To shed light on CZS, we have extensively reviewed the morphological anomalies resulting from ZIKV infection, as well as genes and proteins of interest obtained from the published literature. With this list of genes or proteins, we performed computational analyses to explore the cellular processes, molecular mechanisms, and molecular pathways related to ZIKV infection. Therefore, in this review, we comprehensively describe the morphological abnormalities caused by congenital ZIKV infection and, through the analysis noted above, propose common molecular pathways altered by ZIKV that could explain both central nervous system and craniofacial skeletal alterations.
Keywords in Portuguese
Vírus ZikaMicrocefalia
Desenvolvimento ósseo
Análise de cluster
Mapa de interação de proteínas
Keywords
Zika virusMicrocephaly
Bone development
Gene networks
Cluster analysis
Protein interaction maps
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