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ArticleBiometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift2017

An empirical Bayes approach to network recovery using external knowledge.

Gino B Kpogbezan, Aad W van der Vaart, Wessel N van Wieringen, Gwenaël G R Leday, Mark A van de Wiel

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Article in Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Gino B KpogbezanDepartment of Mathematics, University of Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, CA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Aad W van der VaartDepartment of Mathematics, University of Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, CA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Wessel N van WieringenDepartment of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Gwenaël G R LedayMRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, United Kingdom.
Mark A van de WielDepartment of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc · NLLeiden University · NLMRC Biostatistics Unit · GBUniversity of Applied Sciences Leiden · NLVrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UP_0801/1Medical Research Council MC_UU_00002/10
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reconstruction of a high-dimensional network may benefit substantially from the inclusion of prior knowledge on the network topology. In the case of gene interaction networks such knowledge may come for instance from pathway repositories like KEGG, or be inferred from data of a pilot study. The Bayesian framework provides a natural means of including such prior knowledge. Based on a Bayesian Simultaneous Equation Model, we develop an appealing Empirical Bayes (EB) procedure that automatically assesses the agreement of the used prior knowledge with the data at hand. We use variational Bayes method for posterior densities approximation and compare its accuracy with that of Gibbs sampling strategy. Our method is computationally fast, and can outperform known competitors. In a simulation study, we show that accurate prior data can greatly improve the reconstruction of the network, but need not harm the reconstruction if wrong. We demonstrate the benefits of the method in an analysis of gene expression data from GEO. In particular, the edges of the recovered network have superior reproducibility (compared to that of competitors) over resampled versions of the data.

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Models, StatisticalBayes TheoremBiometryComputer SimulationGene Regulatory NetworksPilot ProjectsReproducibility of ResultsEmpirical BayesHigh-dimensional Bayesian inferencePrior informationUndirected networkVariational approximation

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PMID28393396
PMCPMC5510725
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