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ArticleStatistics in medicine2021

Pathway testing for longitudinal metabolomics.

Mitra Ebrahimpoor, Pietro Spitali, Jelle J Goeman, Roula Tsonaka

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4 authors.

Mitra EbrahimpoorMedical Statistics, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2299-876X
Pietro SpitaliDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2783-688X
Jelle J GoemanMedical Statistics, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Roula TsonakaMedical Statistics, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose a top-down approach for pathway analysis of longitudinal metabolite data. We apply a score test based on a shared latent process mixed model which can identify pathways with differentially progressing metabolites. The strength of our approach is that it can handle unbalanced designs, deals with potential missing values in the longitudinal markers, and gives valid results even with small sample sizes. Contrary to bottom-up approaches, correlations between metabolites are explicitly modeled leveraging power gains. For large pathway sizes, a computationally efficient solution is proposed based on pseudo-likelihood methodology. We demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method in identification of differentially expressed pathways through simulation studies. Finally, longitudinal metabolite data from a mice experiment is analyzed to demonstrate our methodology.

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MetabolomicsAnimalsBiomarkersComputer SimulationLongitudinal StudiesMiceBiomarkersglobal testjoint latent processlongitudinal analysismixed modelpseudo likelihood

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PMID33768548
PMCPMC8252476

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