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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2016

Network-based pathway enrichment analysis with incomplete network information.

Jing Ma, Ali Shojaie, George Michailidis

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Jing MaDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, PA 19104, USA.
Ali ShojaieDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98915, USA.
George MichailidisDepartment of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

Funding

Machine Learning Tools for Discovery and Analysis of Active Metabolic PathwaysR01GM114029 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI SHOJAIE, ALI · 2016 to 2020
$1.7M
Statistical Methods for Network-Based Integrative Analysis of CVD Epigenetic DataK01HL124050 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI SHOJAIE, ALI · 2016 to 2020
$693k
Multi-group covariance estimation for metabolomic analysis with applications to neurodegenerative diseaseR03CA211160 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PROMISLOW, DANIEL EDWARD, SHOJAIE, ALI · 2016 to 2016
$145k
NHLBI NIH HHS K01 HL124050NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114029
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationPathway enrichment analysis has become a key tool for biomedical researchers to gain insight into the underlying biology of differentially expressed genes, proteins and metabolites. It reduces complexity and provides a system-level view of changes in cellular activity in response to treatments and/or in disease states. Methods that use existing pathway network information have been shown to outperform simpler methods that only take into account pathway membership. However, despite significant progress in understanding the association amongst members of biological pathways, and expansion of data bases containing information about interactions of biomolecules, the existing network information may be incomplete or inaccurate and is not cell-type or disease condition-specific.

resultsWe propose a constrained network estimation framework that combines network estimation based on cell- and condition-specific high-dimensional Omics data with interaction information from existing data bases. The resulting pathway topology information is subsequently used to provide a framework for simultaneous testing of differences in expression levels of pathway members, as well as their interactions. We study the asymptotic properties of the proposed network estimator and the test for pathway enrichment, and investigate its small sample performance in simulated and real data settings. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The proposed method has been implemented in the R-package netgsa available on CRAN. CONTACT: jinma@upenn.eduSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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PMID27357170
PMCPMC5939912

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