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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2022

Hierarchical graph attention network for miRNA-disease association prediction.

Zhengwei Li, Tangbo Zhong, Deshuang Huang, Zhu-Hong You, Ru Nie

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhengwei LiGuangxi Key Lab of Human-machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning 530007, China. Electronic address: zwli@gxas.cn.
Tangbo ZhongSchool of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China.
Deshuang HuangGuangxi Key Lab of Human-machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning 530007, China. Electronic address: dshuang@gxas.cn.
Zhu-Hong YouGuangxi Key Lab of Human-machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning 530007, China. Electronic address: zhuhongyou@gmail.com.
Ru NieSchool of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China. Electronic address: nr@cumt.edu.cn.
Guangxi Academy of Sciences · CNChina University of Mining and Technology · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many biological studies show that the mutation and abnormal expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) could cause a variety of diseases. As an important biomarker for disease diagnosis, miRNA is helpful to understand pathogenesis, and could promote the identification, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. However, the pathogenic mechanism how miRNAs affect these diseases has not been fully understood. Therefore, predicting the potential miRNA-disease associations is of great importance for the development of clinical medicine and drug research. In this study, we proposed a novel deep learning model based on hierarchical graph attention network for predicting miRNA-disease associations (HGANMDA). Firstly, we constructed a miRNA-disease-lncRNA heterogeneous graph based on known miRNA-disease associations, miRNA-lncRNA associations and disease-lncRNA associations. Secondly, the node-layer attention was applied to learn the importance of neighbor nodes based on different meta-paths. Thirdly, the semantic-layer attention was applied to learn the importance of different meta-paths. Finally, a bilinear decoder was employed to reconstruct the connections between miRNAs and diseases. The extensive experimental results indicated that our model achieved good performance and satisfactory results in predicting miRNA-disease associations.

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MicroRNAsRNA, Long NoncodingAlgorithmsComputational BiologyMicroRNAsRNA, Long Noncodingdiseasehierarchical graph attention networklncRNAmeta-pathmiRNA

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PMID35121109
PMCPMC9077381
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