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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2019

Machine Learning Algorithm for Predicting Warfarin Dose in Caribbean Hispanics Using Pharmacogenetic Data.

Abiel Roche-Lima, Adalis Roman-Santiago, Roberto Feliu-Maldonado, Jovaniel Rodriguez-Maldonado, Brenda G Nieves-Rodriguez, Kelvin Carrasquillo-Carrion, Carla M Ramos, Istoni da Luz Sant'Ana, Steven E Massey, Jorge Duconge

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Abiel Roche-LimaCenter for Collaborative Research in Health Disparities (CCRHH), University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Adalis Roman-SantiagoPharmaceutical Sciences Department, School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Roberto Feliu-MaldonadoCenter for Collaborative Research in Health Disparities (CCRHH), University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Jovaniel Rodriguez-MaldonadoCenter for Collaborative Research in Health Disparities (CCRHH), University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Brenda G Nieves-RodriguezCenter for Collaborative Research in Health Disparities (CCRHH), University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Kelvin Carrasquillo-CarrionCenter for Collaborative Research in Health Disparities (CCRHH), University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Carla M RamosDepartment of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Istoni da Luz Sant'AnaDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Steven E MasseyDepartment of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Jorge DucongePharmaceutical Sciences Department, School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus · PRUniversity of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras · PR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite some previous examples of successful application to the field of pharmacogenomics, the utility of machine learning (ML) techniques for warfarin dose predictions in Caribbean Hispanic patients has yet to be fully evaluated. This study compares seven ML methods to predict warfarin dosing in Caribbean Hispanics. This is a secondary analysis of genetic and non-genetic clinical data from 190 cardiovascular Hispanic patients. Seven ML algorithms were applied to the data. Data was divided into 80 and 20% to be used as training and test sets. ML algorithms were trained with the training set to obtain the models. Model performance was determined by computing the corresponding mean absolute error (MAE) and % patients whose predicted optimal dose were within ±20% of the actual stabilization dose, and then compared between groups of patients with "normal" (i.e., > 21 but <49 mg/week), low (i.e., ≤21 mg/week, "sensitive"), and high (i.e., ≥49 mg/week, "resistant") dose requirements. Random forest regression (RFR) significantly outperform all other methods, with a MAE of 4.73 mg/week and 80.56% of cases within ±20% of the actual stabilization dose. Among those with "normal" dose requirements, RFR performance is also better than the rest of models (MAE = 2.91 mg/week). In the "sensitive" group, support vector regression (SVR) shows superiority over the others with lower MAE of 4.79 mg/week. Finally, multivariate adaptive splines (MARS) shows the best performance in the resistant group (MAE = 7.22 mg/week) and 66.7% of predictions within ±20%. Models generated by using RFR, MARS, and SVR algorithms showed significantly better predictions of weekly warfarin dosing in the studied cohorts than other algorithms. Better performance of the ML models for patients with "normal," "sensitive," and "resistant" to warfarin were obtained when compared to other populations and previous statistical models.

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Hispanicsmachine-learningpharmacogeneticsprediction algorithmswarfarin

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