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ArticleJournal of statistical computation and simulation2018

Robust gene-environment interaction analysis using penalized trimmed regression.

Yaqing Xu, Mengyun Wu, Shuangge Ma, Syed Ejaz Ahmed

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  1. High-Dimensional Gene-Environment Interaction Analysis.Annual review of statistics and its application · 2025
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  3. Gene-Environment Interaction: A Variable Selection Perspective.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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Yaqing XuDepartment of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Mengyun WuDepartment of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Shuangge MaDepartment of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Syed Ejaz AhmedDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University, Canada.

Funding

Novel methods for identifying genetic interactions in cancer prognosisR01CA204120 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Shuangge Ma · 2016 to 2026
$3.5M
Assisted Network-based Analysis of Cancer Gene Expression StudiesR03CA216017 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MA, SHUANGGE · 2017 to 2018
$168k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204120NCI NIH HHS R03 CA216017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In biomedical and epidemiological studies, gene-environment (G-E) interactions have been shown to importantly contribute to the etiology and progression of many complex diseases. Most existing approaches for identifying G-E interactions are limited by the lack of robustness against outliers/contaminations in response and predictor spaces. In this study, we develop a novel robust G-E identification approach using the trimmed regression technique under joint modeling. A robust data-driven criterion and stability selection are adopted to determine the trimmed subset which is free from both vertical outliers and leverage points. An effective penalization approach is developed to identify important G-E interactions, respecting the "main effects, interactions" hierarchical structure. Extensive simulations demonstrate the better performance of the proposed approach compared to multiple alternatives. Interesting findings with superior prediction accuracy and stability are observed in the analysis of TCGA data on cutaneous melanoma and breast invasive carcinoma.

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G-E interactionPenalized selectionRobustnessTrimmed regression

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