GLaDiGAtor: Language-Model-Augmented Multi-Relation Graph Learning for Predicting Disease-Gene Associations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18769v1
• Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:26:44 GMT
• Title: GLaDiGAtor: Language-Model-Augmented Multi-Relation Graph Learning for Predicting Disease-Gene Associations
• Authors: Osman Onur Kuzucu, Tunca Doğan,
• Abstract summary: Understanding disease-gene associations is essential to unravelling disease mechanisms and advancing diagnostics and therapeutics.<n>To address limitations in existing models, we propose GLaDiGAtor, a novel GNN framework with an encoder-decoder architecture for disease-gene association prediction.<n>GLaDiGAtor constructs a heterogeneous biological graph integrating gene-gene, disease-disease, and gene-disease interactions from curated databases.
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• Abstract: Understanding disease-gene associations is essential for unravelling disease mechanisms and advancing diagnostics and therapeutics. Traditional approaches based on manual curation and literature review are labour-intensive and not scalable, prompting the use of machine learning on large biomedical data. In particular, graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise for modelling complex biological relationships. To address limitations in existing models, we propose GLaDiGAtor (Graph Learning-bAsed DIsease-Gene AssociaTiOn pRediction), a novel GNN framework with an encoder-decoder architecture for disease-gene association prediction. GLaDiGAtor constructs a heterogeneous biological graph integrating gene-gene, disease-disease, and gene-disease interactions from curated databases, and enriches each node with contextual features from well-known language models (ProtT5 for protein sequences and BioBERT for disease text). In evaluations, our model achieves superior predictive accuracy and generalisation, outperforming 14 existing methods. Literature-supported case studies confirm the biological relevance of high-confidence novel predictions, highlighting GLaDiGAtor's potential to discover candidate disease genes. These results underscore the power of graph convolutional networks in biomedical informatics and may ultimately facilitate drug discovery by revealing new gene-disease links. The source code and processed datasets are publicly available at https://github.com/HUBioDataLab/GLaDiGAtor.

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