Complex disease definitions often represent descriptive umbrella terms of symptoms rather than mechanistic entities. A new study shows how network-based approaches can help identify the mechanisms that link genes, cells, tissues and organs in cardiovascular diseases.
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Schmidt, H.H.H.W., Menche, J. The regulatory network architecture of cardiometabolic diseases. Nat Genet 54, 2–3 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00994-w
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