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ArticleGenomics2019

Robust identification of gene-environment interactions for prognosis using a quantile partial correlation approach.

Yaqing Xu, Mengyun Wu, Qingzhao Zhang, Shuangge Ma

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Article in Genomics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. High-Dimensional Gene-Environment Interaction Analysis.Annual review of statistics and its application · 2025
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  2. Gene-environment interaction analysis under the Cox model.Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics · 2023
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  3. Unified model-free interaction screening via CV-entropy filter.Computational statistics & data analysis · 2023
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  5. Gene-Environment Interaction: A Variable Selection Perspective.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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  11. Robust gene-environment interaction analysis using penalized trimmed regression.Journal of statistical computation and simulation · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Yaqing XuDepartment of Biostatistics, Yale University, United States.
Mengyun WuSchool of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China; Department of Biostatistics, Yale University, United States.
Qingzhao ZhangSchool of Economics and Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University, China.
Shuangge MaDepartment of Biostatistics, Yale University, United States. Electronic address: shuangge.ma@yale.edu.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Novel methods for identifying genetic interactions in cancer prognosisR01CA204120 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Shuangge Ma · 2016 to 2026
$3.5M
Penalization methods for identifying gene envrionment interactions and applications to melanoma and other cancer typesR21CA191383 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MA, SHUANGGE · 2015 to 2017
$435k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204120NCI NIH HHS R21 CA191383
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene-environment (G-E) interactions have important implications for the etiology and progression of many complex diseases. Compared to continuous markers and categorical disease status, prognosis has been less investigated, with the additional challenges brought by the unique characteristics of survival outcomes. Most of the existing G-E interaction approaches for prognosis data share the limitation that they cannot accommodate long-tailed or contaminated outcomes. In this study, for prognosis data, we develop a robust G-E interaction identification approach using the censored quantile partial correlation (CQPCorr) technique. The proposed approach is built on the quantile regression technique (and hence has a solid statistical basis), uses weights to easily accommodate censoring, and adopts partial correlation to identify important interactions while properly controlling for the main genetic and environmental effects. In simulation, it outperforms multiple competitors with more accurate identification. In the analysis of TCGA data on lung cancer and melanoma, biologically sensible findings different from using the alternatives are made.

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Gene-Environment InteractionModels, GeneticComputer SimulationHumansLung NeoplasmsMelanomaPrognosisCensored quantile partial correlationPrognosisRobust G-E interaction

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PMID30009922
PMCPMC6335188

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