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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2021

Biomarker Categorization in Transcriptomic Meta-Analysis by Concordant Patterns With Application to Pan-Cancer Studies.

Zhenyao Ye, Hongjie Ke, Shuo Chen, Raul Cruz-Cano, Xin He, Jing Zhang, Joanne Dorgan, Donald K Milton, Tianzhou Ma

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhenyao YeDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
Hongjie KeDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
Shuo ChenDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Raul Cruz-CanoDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
Xin HeDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
Jing ZhangDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
Joanne DorganDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Donald K MiltonMaryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
Tianzhou MaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
University of Maryland, College Park · USUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the increasing availability and dropping cost of high-throughput technology in recent years, many-omics datasets have accumulated in the public domain. Combining multiple transcriptomic studies on related hypothesis via meta-analysis can improve statistical power and reproducibility over single studies. For differential expression (DE) analysis, biomarker categorization by DE pattern across studies is a natural but critical task following biomarker detection to help explain between study heterogeneity and classify biomarkers into categories with potentially related functionality. In this paper, we propose a novel meta-analysis method to categorize biomarkers by simultaneously considering the concordant pattern and the biological and statistical significance across studies. Biomarkers with the same DE pattern can be analyzed together in downstream pathway enrichment analysis. In the presence of different types of transcripts (e.g., mRNA, miRNA, and lncRNA, etc.), integrative analysis including miRNA/lncRNA target enrichment analysis and miRNA-mRNA and lncRNA-mRNA causal regulatory network analysis can be conducted jointly on all the transcripts of the same category. We applied our method to two Pan-cancer transcriptomic study examples with single or multiple types of transcripts available. Targeted downstream analysis identified categories of biomarkers with unique functionality and regulatory relationships that motivate new hypothesis in Pan-cancer analysis.

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biomarker categorizationdifferential expressionmeta-analysispan-cancertranscriptomics

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PMID34276766
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