Discovering functional gene pathways associated with cancer heterogeneity via sparse supervised learning

Shuichi Kawano, Teppei Shimamura, Atsushi Niida, Seiya Imoto, Rui Yamaguchi, Masao Nagasaki, Ryo Yoshida, Cristin Print, Satoru Miyano

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Abstract

We propose a statistical method for uncovering gene pathways that characterize cancer heterogeneity. To incorporate knowledge of the pathways into the model, we define a set of activities of pathways from microarray gene expression data based on the sparse probabilistic principal component analysis. A pathway activity logistic regression model is then formulated for cancer phenotype. To select pathway activities related to binary cancer phenotypes, we use the elastic net for the parameter estimation and derive a model selection criterion for selecting tuning parameters included in the model estimation. Our proposed method can also reverse-engineer gene networks based on the identified multiple pathways that enables us to discover novel gene-gene associations relating with the cancer phenotypes. We illustrate the whole process of the proposed method through the analysis of breast cancer gene expression data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2010
Pages253-258
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2010 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: Dec 18 2010Dec 21 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2010

Other

Other2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period12/18/1012/21/10

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics

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