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ArticleOncotarget2016

Post-transcriptional knowledge in pathway analysis increases the accuracy of phenotypes classification.

Salvatore Alaimo, Rosalba Giugno, Mario Acunzo, Dario Veneziano, Alfredo Ferro, Alfredo Pulvirenti

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Salvatore AlaimoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Rosalba GiugnoDepartment of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Mario AcunzoDepartment of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Dario VenezianoDepartment of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Alfredo FerroDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Alfredo PulvirentiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationPrediction of phenotypes from high-dimensional data is a crucial task in precision biology and medicine. Many technologies employ genomic biomarkers to characterize phenotypes. However, such elements are not sufficient to explain the underlying biology. To improve this, pathway analysis techniques have been proposed. Nevertheless, such methods have shown lack of accuracy in phenotypes classification.

resultsHere we propose a novel methodology called MITHrIL (Mirna enrIched paTHway Impact anaLysis) for the analysis of signaling pathways, which extends the work of Tarca et al., 2009. MITHrIL augments pathways with missing regulatory elements, such as microRNAs, and their interactions with genes. The method takes as input the expression values of genes and/or microRNAs and returns a list of pathways sorted according to their degree of deregulation, together with the corresponding statistical significance (p-values). Our analysis shows that MITHrIL outperforms its competitors even in the worst case. In addition, our method is able to correctly classify sets of tumor samples drawn from TCGA. AVAILABILITY: MITHrIL is freely available at the following URL: http://alpha.dmi.unict.it/mithril/.

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Signal TransductionGene Expression ProfilingGene Regulatory NetworksHumansMicroRNAsNeoplasmsPhenotypePrecision MedicineMicroRNAsmicroRNAspathway analysisphenotype classificationRNA-Seq

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