Integrating population-level and cell-based signatures for drug repositioning.

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Drugs with human genetic evidence are more likely to advance successfully through clinical trials toward Food and Drug Administration approval. Single gene-based drug repositioning methods have been implemented, but approaches leveraging a broad spectrum of molecular signatures remain underexplored.\nRESULTS: We propose a framework called \"Transcriptome-informed Reversal Distance\" (TReD) that embeds the disease signatures and drug response profiles into a high-dimensional normed space to quantify the reversal potential of candidate drugs in a disease-related cell-based screening. We applied TReD to COVID-19, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease (AD), identifying 36, 16, and 11 candidate drugs, respectively. Among these, literature supports 69% (25/36), 31% (5/16), and 64% (7/11) of the drugs, with clinical trials conducted for seven COVID-19 candidates and three AD candidates. In summary, we propose a comprehensive genetics-anchored framework integrating population-level signatures and cell-based screening that has the potential to accelerate the search for new therapeutic strategies.\nAVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Source code and datasets considered in this study are available at Github (https://github.com/zdangm/TReD). 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