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ArticleMicroarrays (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Enhancing Interpretability of Gene Signatures with Prior Biological Knowledge.

Margherita Squillario, Matteo Barbieri, Alessandro Verri, Annalisa Barla

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Article in Microarrays (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Margherita SquillarioDIBRIS, University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 35, I-16146 Genova, Italy. margherita.squillario@unige.it.
Matteo BarbieriDIBRIS, University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 35, I-16146 Genova, Italy. matteo.barbieri@dibris.unige.it.
Alessandro VerriDIBRIS, University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 35, I-16146 Genova, Italy. alessandro.verri@unige.it.
Annalisa BarlaDIBRIS, University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 35, I-16146 Genova, Italy. annalisa.barla@unige.it.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological interpretability is a key requirement for the output of microarray data analysis pipelines. The most used pipeline first identifies a gene signature from the acquired measurements and then uses gene enrichment analysis as a tool for functionally characterizing the obtained results. Recently Knowledge Driven Variable Selection (KDVS), an alternative approach which performs both steps at the same time, has been proposed. In this paper, we assess the effectiveness of KDVS against standard approaches on a Parkinson's Disease (PD) dataset. The presented quantitative analysis is made possible by the construction of a reference list of genes and gene groups associated to PD. Our work shows that KDVS is much more effective than the standard approach in enhancing the interpretability of the obtained results.

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established domain knowledgefunctional characterizationgene expressiongene ontologyKDVSParkinson’s diseasesparse regularizationvariable selection

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PMID27600081
PMCPMC5003491

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