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Specifically, we investigate the effectiveness of disrupting the topology of human pathway graphs through a regulation by miRNAs.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: From a set of miRNA candidates that is associated with a pathway, an exhaustive search for all possible doubles and triplets (coined miR-Duo, miR-Trios) is performed. The impact of each miR-combination on the connectivity of the pathway graph was quantified. About 170 human pathways were tested, and the miR-Duos and miR-Trios were scored for their ability to disrupt these pathway graphs. We show that 75% of all pathways are effectively disconnected by a small number of pathway-specific miR-Trios. Only 15% of the human pathways are resistant to fragmentation by miR-Duos or miR-Trios. Significantly, the combination of the most effective miR-Trios is unique. Thus, a specific regulation of a pathway within the cell is guaranteed. The impact of the selected miR-Duo\/Trios on various diseases is discussed.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Conclusions: The methodology presented shows that the synthesis of the topology of a network with a detailed understanding of the miRNAs' regulation is useful in exposing critical nodes of the network. We propose the miR-Trio approach as a basis for rationally designed perturbation experiments.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0michall@cc.huji.ac.il<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bts077","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,2,11]],"date-time":"2012-02-11T04:47:14Z","timestamp":1328935634000},"page":"983-990","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Susceptibility of the human pathways graphs to fragmentation by small sets of microRNAs"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Guy","family":"Naamati","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computer Science and Engineering and 2Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel"}]},{"given":"Yitzhak","family":"Friedman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computer Science and Engineering and 2Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel"}]},{"given":"Ohad","family":"Balaga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computer Science and Engineering and 2Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel"}]},{"given":"Michal","family":"Linial","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computer Science and Engineering and 2Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,2,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012512242720100_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"350","DOI":"10.1038\/nature02871","article-title":"The functions of animal microRNAs","volume":"431","author":"Ambros","year":"2004","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"2023012512242720100_B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"363","DOI":"10.1038\/msb.2010.24","article-title":"Target mRNA abundance dilutes microRNA and siRNA activity","volume":"6","author":"Arvey","year":"2010","journal-title":"Mol. 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