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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2016

Integrating multiple immunogenetic data sources for feature extraction and mining somatic hypermutation patterns: the case of "towards analysis" in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

Ioannis Kavakiotis, Aliki Xochelli, Andreas Agathangelidis, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Nicos Maglaveras, Kostas Stamatopoulos, Anastasia Hadzidimitriou, Ioannis Vlahavas, Ioanna Chouvarda

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Ioannis KavakiotisDepartment of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. ikavak@csd.auth.gr.
Aliki XochelliInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Andreas AgathangelidisDivision of Molecular Oncology and Department of Onco-Hematology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Grigorios TsoumakasDepartment of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nicos MaglaverasInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Kostas StamatopoulosInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Anastasia HadzidimitriouInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ioannis VlahavasDepartment of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ioanna ChouvardaInstitute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRCentre for Research and Technology Hellas · GRUppsala University · SESan Raffaele University of Rome · IT

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Abstract

backgroundSomatic Hypermutation (SHM) refers to the introduction of mutations within rearranged V(D)J genes, a process that increases the diversity of Immunoglobulins (IGs). The analysis of SHM has offered critical insight into the physiology and pathology of B cells, leading to strong prognostication markers for clinical outcome in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), the most frequent adult B-cell malignancy. In this paper we present a methodology for integrating multiple immunogenetic and clinocobiological data sources in order to extract features and create high quality datasets for SHM analysis in IG receptors of CLL patients. This dataset is used as the basis for a higher level integration procedure, inspired form social choice theory. This is applied in the Towards Analysis, our attempt to investigate the potential ontogenetic transformation of genes belonging to specific stereotyped CLL subsets towards other genes or gene families, through SHM.

resultsThe data integration process, followed by feature extraction, resulted in the generation of a dataset containing information about mutations occurring through SHM. The Towards analysis performed on the integrated dataset applying voting techniques, revealed the distinct behaviour of subset #201 compared to other subsets, as regards SHM related movements among gene clans, both in allele-conserved and non-conserved gene areas. With respect to movement between genes, a high percentage movement towards pseudo genes was found in all CLL subsets.

conclusionsThis data integration and feature extraction process can set the basis for exploratory analysis or a fully automated computational data mining approach on many as yet unanswered, clinically relevant biological questions.

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AdultDatabases, GeneticFemaleGerm-Line MutationHumansImmunogeneticsImmunoglobulinsImmunoglobulin Variable RegionLeukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-CellSomatic Hypermutation, ImmunoglobulinImmunoglobulinsImmunoglobulin Variable RegionChronic lymphocytic leukaemiaCLLData integrationFeature extractionList aggregationMutation patterns, somatic hypermutationSHM

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PMCPMC4905615
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