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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2013

Joint analysis of expression profiles from multiple cancers improves the identification of microRNA-gene interactions.

Xiaowei Chen, Frank J Slack, Hongyu Zhao

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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Xiaowei ChenProgram in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Frank J Slack
Hongyu Zhao
Yale University · US

Funding

Clinical Study of PHY906, a Novel Chinese Herbal Medicine, as a Modulator of IrinP01CA154295 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CHENG, YUNG-CHI · 2011 to 2016
$6.4M
STATISTICAL METHODS TO MAP GENES FOR COMPLEX TRAITSR01GM059507 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHAO, HONGYU · 1999 to 2013
$3.6M
Let-7 microRNAs in Lung Cancer: Altering Growth and RadioresistanceR01CA131301 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SLACK, FRANK J., WEIDHAAS, JOANNE B · 2009 to 2013
$1.7M
YALE BIOMEDICAL SUPERCOMPUTER: NEUROSCIENCES10RR019895 · NCRR · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAMS, KENNETH ROBERT · 2004 to 2004
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS CA131301NCI NIH HHS P01 CA154295NCI NIH HHS P01CA154295NCI NIH HHS R01 CA131301NCRR NIH HHS RR19895NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR019895NIGMS NIH HHS NIH R01 GM59507NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059507
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Abstract

motivationMicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a crucial role in tumorigenesis and development through their effects on target genes. The characterization of miRNA-gene interactions will lead to a better understanding of cancer mechanisms. Many computational methods have been developed to infer miRNA targets with/without expression data. Because expression datasets are in general limited in size, most existing methods concatenate datasets from multiple studies to form one aggregated dataset to increase sample size and power. However, such simple aggregation analysis results in identifying miRNA-gene interactions that are mostly common across datasets, whereas specific interactions may be missed by these methods. Recent releases of The Cancer Genome Atlas data provide paired expression profiling of miRNAs and genes in multiple tumors with sufficiently large sample size. To study both common and cancer-specific interactions, it is desirable to develop a method that can jointly analyze multiple cancers to study miRNA-gene interactions without combining all the data into one single dataset.

resultsWe developed a novel statistical method to jointly analyze expression profiles from multiple cancers to identify miRNA-gene interactions that are both common across cancers and specific to certain cancers. The benefit of this joint analysis approach is demonstrated by both simulation studies and real data analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas datasets. Compared with simple aggregate analysis or single sample analysis, our method can effectively use the shared information among different but related cancers to improve the identification of miRNA-gene interactions. Another useful property of our method is that it can estimate similarity among cancers through their shared miRNA-gene interactions. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The program, MCMG, implemented in R is available at http://bioinformatics.med.yale.edu/group/.

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Breast NeoplasmsCystadenocarcinoma, SerousFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGlioblastomaHumansMicroRNAsNeoplasmsOvarian NeoplasmsMicroRNAs

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PMID23772050
PMCPMC3740623
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