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ReviewHuman genetics2015

An argument for mechanism-based statistical inference in cancer.

Donald Geman, Michael Ochs, Nathan D Price, Cristian Tomasetti, Laurent Younes

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Review in Human genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Donald GemanDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21210, USA, geman@jhu.edu.
Michael Ochs
Nathan D Price
Cristian Tomasetti
Laurent Younes

Funding

Translational Research Central ServicesP30CA006973 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAM George NELSON · 1985 to 2026
$208.6M
Quantitative Systems BiologyP50GM076547 · NIGMS · INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY · PI DUDLEY, AIMEE M · 2006 to 2016
$30.6M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006973NIGMS NIH HHS 2P50GM076547NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM076547
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is perhaps the prototypical systems disease, and as such has been the focus of extensive study in quantitative systems biology. However, translating these programs into personalized clinical care remains elusive and incomplete. In this perspective, we argue that realizing this agenda—in particular, predicting disease phenotypes, progression and treatment response for individuals—requires going well beyond standard computational and bioinformatics tools and algorithms. It entails designing global mathematical models over network-scale configurations of genomic states and molecular concentrations, and learning the model parameters from limited available samples of high-dimensional and integrative omics data. As such, any plausible design should accommodate: biological mechanism, necessary for both feasible learning and interpretable decision making; stochasticity, to deal with uncertainty and observed variation at many scales; and a capacity for statistical inference at the patient level. This program, which requires a close, sustained collaboration between mathematicians and biologists, is illustrated in several contexts, including learning biomarkers, metabolism, cell signaling, network inference and tumorigenesis.

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Data Interpretation, StatisticalPhenotypeBiomarkers, TumorCarcinogenesisComputational BiologyGene Regulatory NetworksHumansMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMutationNeoplasmsSignal TransductionSystems BiologyTranslational Research, BiomedicalBiomarkers, Tumor

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PMID25381197
PMCPMC4612627

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