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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2022

Letter to the Editor: on the stability and internal consistency of component-wise sparse mixture regression-based clustering.

Bo Zhang, Jianghua He, Jinxiang Hu, Devin C Koestler, Prabhakar Chalise

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Bo ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3531-3843
Jianghua HeDepartment of Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Jinxiang HuDepartment of Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Devin C KoestlerDepartment of Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Prabhakar ChaliseDepartment of Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.

Funding

Mentoring CoreP20GM103418 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI Douglas E Wright · 2012 to 2026
$63.0M
Transgenic & Gene-Targeting Shared ResourceP30CA168524 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI ROY A. JENSEN · 2012 to 2026
$40.1M
Using Integrated Omics to Identify Dysfunctional Genetic Mechanisms Influencing Schizophrenia and Sleep DisturbancesP20GM130423 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI Kalyani Pyaram, Steven Allan Soper · 2019 to 2026
$21.5M
MicroRNA, Environmental Exposures and Newborn OutcomesR01ES025145 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI KOESTLER, DEVIN CHARLES, MARSIT, CARMEN JOSEPH · 2016 to 2019
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA168524NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES025145NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103418NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM130423
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Abstract

Understanding the relationship between molecular markers and a phenotype of interest is often obfuscated by patient-level heterogeneity. To address this challenge, Chang et al. recently published a novel method called Component-wise Sparse Mixture Regression (CSMR), a regression-based clustering method that promises to detect heterogeneous relationships between molecular markers and a phenotype of interest under high-dimensional settings. In this Letter to the Editor, we raise awareness to several issues concerning the assessment of CSMR in Chang et al., particularly its assessment in settings where the number of features, P, exceeds the study sample size, N, and advocate for additional metrics/approaches when assessing the performance of regression-based clustering methodologies.

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Cluster AnalysisHumansPhenotypedisease heterogeneitymixture modelingsupervised learning

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PMID34953466
PMCPMC8769908

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