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ArticleComputer methods and programs in biomedicine2011

Application of clustering analyses to the diagnosis of Huntington disease in mice and other diseases with well-defined group boundaries.

Jason B Nikas, Walter C Low

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Article in Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jason B NikasDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. nikas001@umn.edu
Walter C Low
University of Minnesota Medical Center · US

Funding

Training in PharmacoNeuroImmune Substance Abuse ResearchT32DA007097 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI MOLITOR, THOMAS WILLIAM · 1985 to 2021
$13.1M
Transgenic Mice for the Visualization of Dopamine Neurons in vivoR03NS060059 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LOW, WALTER C · 2008 to 2009
$151k
NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA007097NINDS NIH HHS R03 NS060059
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has emerged as a technology that can provide metabolite information within organ systems in vivo. In this study, we introduced a new method of employing a clustering algorithm to develop a diagnostic model that can differentially diagnose a single unknown subject in a disease with well-defined group boundaries. We used three tests to assess the suitability and the accuracy required for diagnostic purposes of the four clustering algorithms we investigated (K-means, Fuzzy, Hierarchical, and Medoid Partitioning). To accomplish this goal, we studied the striatal metabolomic profile of R6/2 Huntington disease (HD) transgenic mice and that of wild type (WT) mice using high field in vivo proton NMR spectroscopy (9.4T). We tested all four clustering algorithms (1) with the original R6/2 HD mice and WT mice, (2) with unknown mice, whose status had been determined via genotyping, and (3) with the ability to separate the original R6/2 mice into the two age subgroups (8 and 12 weeks old). Only our diagnostic models that employed ROC-supervised Fuzzy, unsupervised Fuzzy, and ROC-supervised K-means Clustering passed all three stringent tests with 100% accuracy, indicating that they may be used for diagnostic purposes.

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AnimalsCluster AnalysisHuntington DiseaseMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMetabolomicsMiceMice, Transgenic

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PMID21529982
PMCPMC3166551
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