Computational Analysis of Muscular Dystrophy Sub-types Using A Novel Integrative Scheme

To construct biologically interpretable gene sets for muscular dystrophy (MD) sub-type classification, we propose a novel computational scheme to integrate protein-protein interaction (PPI) network, functional gene set information, and mRNA profiling data. The workflow of the proposed scheme include...

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Veröffentlicht in:Neurocomputing. - 1998. - 92(2012) vom: 01. Sept., Seite 9-17
1. Verfasser: Wang, Chen (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Ha, Sook, Xuan, Jianhua, Wang, Yue, Hoffman, Eric
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2012
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Neurocomputing
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:To construct biologically interpretable gene sets for muscular dystrophy (MD) sub-type classification, we propose a novel computational scheme to integrate protein-protein interaction (PPI) network, functional gene set information, and mRNA profiling data. The workflow of the proposed scheme includes the following three major steps: firstly, we apply an affinity propagation clustering (APC) approach to identify gene sub-networks associated with each MD sub-type, in which a new distance metric is proposed for APC to combine PPI network information and gene-gene co-expression relationship; secondly, we further incorporate functional gene set knowledge, which complements the physical PPI information, into our scheme for biomarker identification; finally, based on the constructed sub-networks and gene set features, we apply multi-class support vector machines (MSVMs) for MD sub-type classification, with which to highlight the biomarkers contributing to sub-type prediction. The experimental results show that our scheme can help identify sub-networks and gene sets that are more relevant to MD than those constructed by other conventional approaches. Moreover, our integrative strategy improves the prediction accuracy substantially, especially for those 'hard-to-classify' sub-types
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Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:0925-2312