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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2012

Bayesian inference of signaling network topology in a cancer cell line.

Steven M Hill, Yiling Lu, Jennifer Molina, Laura M Heiser, Paul T Spellman, Terence P Speed, Joe W Gray, Gordon B Mills, Sach Mukherjee

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Statistical genomics in rare cancer.Seminars in cancer biology · 2020
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  12. Inferring signaling pathways with probabilistic programming.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Steven M HillDepartment of Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Yiling Lu
Jennifer Molina
Laura M Heiser
Paul T Spellman
Terence P Speed
Joe W Gray
Gordon B Mills
Sach Mukherjee

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Kathrin Milbury · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
Tissue and Outcomes CoreP50CA058207 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GRAY, JOE W. · 1992 to 2012
$32.7M
Targeting the PI3K Signaling Pathway in Endometrial CarcinomaP50CA098258 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI BROADDUS, RUSSELL R · 2003 to 2020
$32.0M
Systems-Based Predictions of Responses to Cancer TherapyU54CA112970 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI MILLS, GORDON B. · 2004 to 2014
$27.1M
Tyrosine Kinase-Dependant and - Independent Pathways of EGFR in Breast Cancer ProP01CA099031 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI HUNG, MIEN-CHIE · 2003 to 2014
$11.6M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA099031NCI NIH HHS P01CA099031NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672NCI NIH HHS P30 CA16672NCI NIH HHS P50 CA058207NCI NIH HHS P50 CA098258NCI NIH HHS P50 CA 58207NCI NIH HHS U54 CA 112970NCI NIH HHS U54 CA112970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationProtein signaling networks play a key role in cellular function, and their dysregulation is central to many diseases, including cancer. To shed light on signaling network topology in specific contexts, such as cancer, requires interrogation of multiple proteins through time and statistical approaches to make inferences regarding network structure.

resultsIn this study, we use dynamic Bayesian networks to make inferences regarding network structure and thereby generate testable hypotheses. We incorporate existing biology using informative network priors, weighted objectively by an empirical Bayes approach, and exploit a connection between variable selection and network inference to enable exact calculation of posterior probabilities of interest. The approach is computationally efficient and essentially free of user-set tuning parameters. Results on data where the true, underlying network is known place the approach favorably relative to existing approaches. We apply these methods to reverse-phase protein array time-course data from a breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB-468) to predict signaling links that we independently validate using targeted inhibition. The methods proposed offer a general approach by which to elucidate molecular networks specific to biological context, including, but not limited to, human cancers. AVAILABILITY: http://mukherjeelab.nki.nl/DBN (code and data).

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Bayes TheoremModels, MolecularModels, StatisticalSignal TransductionArea Under CurveBreast NeoplasmsCell CommunicationCell Line, TumorComputer SimulationFemaleHumansProbability

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PMID22923301
PMCPMC3476330

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