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ArticleScientific reports2018

A Nasal Brush-based Classifier of Asthma Identified by Machine Learning Analysis of Nasal RNA Sequence Data.

Gaurav Pandey, Om P Pandey, Angela J Rogers, Mehmet E Ahsen, Gabriel E Hoffman, Benjamin A Raby, Scott T Weiss, Eric E Schadt, Supinda Bunyavanich

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gaurav PandeyIcahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1939-679X
Om P PandeyIcahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Angela J RogersDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Mehmet E AhsenIcahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Gabriel E HoffmanIcahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Benjamin A RabyChanning Division of Network Medicine and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Scott T WeissChanning Division of Network Medicine and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Eric E SchadtIcahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7892-8808
Supinda BunyavanichIcahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. supinda@post.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6108-439X
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USStanford University · US

Funding

Nasal biomarkers of asthmaR01AI118833 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BUNYAVANICH, SUPINDA · 2015 to 2019
$3.8M
Transforming Genomics with 5 PB Big Omics Data Engine Cray CS300-AC SupercomputerS10OD018522 · OD · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI KOVATCH, PATRICIA · 2014 to 2014
$1.9M
Boosting the Translational Impact of Scientific Competitions by Ensemble LearningR01GM114434 · NIGMS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI PANDEY, GAURAV · 2015 to 2017
$1.3M
The Genetics and Genomics of Allergic RhinitisK08AI093538 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BUNYAVANICH, SUPINDA · 2011 to 2015
$663k
NIAID NIH HHS K08 AI093538NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI118833NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114434NIH HHS S10 OD018522
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma is a common, under-diagnosed disease affecting all ages. We sought to identify a nasal brush-based classifier of mild/moderate asthma. 190 subjects with mild/moderate asthma and controls underwent nasal brushing and RNA sequencing of nasal samples. A machine learning-based pipeline identified an asthma classifier consisting of 90 genes interpreted via an L2-regularized logistic regression classification model. This classifier performed with strong predictive value and sensitivity across eight test sets, including (1) a test set of independent asthmatic and control subjects profiled by RNA sequencing (positive and negative predictive values of 1.00 and 0.96, respectively; AUC of 0.994), (2) two independent case-control cohorts of asthma profiled by microarray, and (3) five cohorts with other respiratory conditions (allergic rhinitis, upper respiratory infection, cystic fibrosis, smoking), where the classifier had a low to zero misclassification rate. Following validation in large, prospective cohorts, this classifier could be developed into a nasal biomarker of asthma.

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Gene Expression ProfilingMachine LearningSequence Analysis, RNAAdultAsthmaFemaleHumansMaleMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNasal MucosaPredictive Value of TestsProspective StudiesSensitivity and SpecificityYoung Adult

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PMID29891868
PMCPMC5995932
OpenAlexW2953113365

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