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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2020

Inferring Regulatory Networks From Mixed Observational Data Using Directed Acyclic Graphs.

Wujuan Zhong, Li Dong, Taylor B Poston, Toni Darville, Cassandra N Spracklen, Di Wu, Karen L Mohlke, Yun Li, Quefeng Li, Xiaojing Zheng

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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10 authors.

Wujuan ZhongDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Li DongDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Taylor B PostonDepartment of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Toni DarvilleDepartment of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Cassandra N SpracklenDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Di WuDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Karen L MohlkeDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Yun LiDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Quefeng LiDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Xiaojing ZhengDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.

Funding

The UPMC Sexually Transmitted Infections Cooperative Research CenterU19AI084024 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WIESENFELD, HAROLD C · 2009 to 2013
$12.9M
University of North Carolina - Chlamydia Vaccine Initiative (UNC-CVI)U19AI144181 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DARVILLE, TONI · 2019 to 2023
$10.7M
Genetic epidemiology of rare and regulatory variants for metabolic traitsR01DK093757 · NIDDK · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KAREN L. MOHLKE · 2011 to 2026
$8.2M
The Atlantic Coast Sexually Transmitted Infection Cooperative Research Center (ACU19AI113170 · NIAID · HENRY M. JACKSON FDN FOR THE ADV MIL/MED · PI JERSE, ANN E. · 2014 to 2018
$6.9M
Statistical Methods for RNA-seq Data AnalysisR01GM105785 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Wei Sun · 2014 to 2026
$4.6M
Natural Immunity Against Chlamydia trachomatisR01AI119164 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DARVILLE, TONI · 2016 to 2020
$3.6M
Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Censored DataR01GM047845 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LIN, DANYU · 1997 to 2018
$2.9M
Genetic Studies of Blood Cell Traits in Multi-Ethnic CohortsR01HL129132 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LI, YUN, REINER, ALEXANDER P · 2016 to 2019
$2.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL129132NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI119164NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI084024NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI113170NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI144181NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK093757NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM047845NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM105785
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Construction of regulatory networks using cross-sectional expression profiling of genes is desired, but challenging. The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) provides a general framework to infer causal effects from observational data. However, most existing DAG methods assume that all nodes follow the same type of distribution, which prohibit a joint modeling of continuous gene expression and categorical variables. We present a new mixed DAG (mDAG) algorithm to infer the regulatory pathway from mixed observational data containing both continuous variables (e.g. expression of genes) and categorical variables (e.g. categorical phenotypes or single nucleotide polymorphisms). Our method can identify upstream causal factors and downstream effectors closely linked to a variable and generate hypotheses for causal direction of regulatory pathways. We propose a new permutation method to test the conditional independence of variables of mixed types, which is the key for mDAG. We also utilize an

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causal regulatory pathwayscontinuous and categorical variablesdirected acyclic graphsmixed observational dataregulatory network

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PMID32127796
PMCPMC7038820

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