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ArticleiScience2019

Estimating Sample-Specific Regulatory Networks.

Marieke Lydia Kuijjer, Matthew George Tung, GuoCheng Yuan, John Quackenbush, Kimberly Glass

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Article in iScience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 121 papers.

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121 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Marieke Lydia KuijjerCentre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Nordic EMBL Partnership, University of Oslo, 0318 Oslo, Norway.
Matthew George TungDepartment of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
GuoCheng YuanDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
John QuackenbushDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Kimberly GlassChanning Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: kimberly.glass@channing.harvard.edu.

Funding

Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, and BiostatisticsP01HL105339 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SILVERMAN, EDWIN K · 2011 to 2015
$12.2M
Unraveling the Complexities of Risk and Mechanism in CancerR35CA220523 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI QUACKENBUSH, JOHN · 2018 to 2024
$6.0M
Using Networks to Assign Gene Function in Lung DiseaseR01HL111759 · NHLBI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI QUACKENBUSH, JOHN, SILVERMAN, EDWIN K · 2012 to 2015
$3.4M
Using Integrative Networks to Explore Heterogeneous Phenotypes in COPDK25HL133599 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI GLASS, KIMBERLY RENEE · 2016 to 2020
$945k
NCI NIH HHS R35 CA220523NHLBI NIH HHS K25 HL133599NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL105339NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL111759
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological systems are driven by intricate interactions among molecules. Many methods have been developed that draw on large numbers of expression samples to infer connections between genes (or their products). The result is an aggregate network representing a single estimate for the likelihood of each interaction, or "edge," in the network. Although informative, aggregate models fail to capture population heterogeneity. Here we propose a method to reverse engineer sample-specific networks from aggregate networks. We demonstrate our approach in several contexts, including simulated, yeast microarray, and human lymphoblastoid cell line RNA sequencing data. We use these sample-specific networks to study changes in network topology across time and to characterize shifts in gene regulation that were not apparent in the expression data. We believe that generating sample-specific networks will greatly facilitate the application of network methods to large, complex, and heterogeneous multi-omic datasets, supporting the emerging field of precision network medicine.

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PMCPMC6463816

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