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ArticleHeredity2014

Cuckoo search epistasis: a new method for exploring significant genetic interactions.

M Aflakparast, H Salimi, A Gerami, M-P Dubé, S Visweswaran, A Masoudi-Nejad

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Article in Heredity, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

M Aflakparast1] Laboratory of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (LBB), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran [2] Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
H SalimiDepartment of Computer Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
A GeramiDepartment of Statistics and Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin Branch, Qazvin, Iran.
M-P DubéDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
S VisweswaranDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
A Masoudi-NejadLaboratory of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (LBB), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
University of Tehran · IRQazvin Islamic Azad University · IRUniversité de Montréal · CAUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advent of high-throughput sequencing technology has resulted in the ability to measure millions of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from thousands of individuals. Although these high-dimensional data have paved the way for better understanding of the genetic architecture of common diseases, they have also given rise to challenges in developing computational methods for learning epistatic relationships among genetic markers. We propose a new method, named cuckoo search epistasis (CSE) for identifying significant epistatic interactions in population-based association studies with a case-control design. This method combines a computationally efficient Bayesian scoring function with an evolutionary-based heuristic search algorithm, and can be efficiently applied to high-dimensional genome-wide SNP data. The experimental results from synthetic data sets show that CSE outperforms existing methods including multifactorial dimensionality reduction and Bayesian epistasis association mapping. In addition, on a real genome-wide data set related to Alzheimer's disease, CSE identified SNPs that are consistent with previously reported results, and show the utility of CSE for application to genome-wide data.

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Epistasis, GeneticModels, GeneticAlgorithmsBayes TheoremComputational BiologyDatasets as TopicGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansPolymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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PMID24549111
PMCPMC4023449
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