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ArticleBMC genomics2023

ETGPDA: identification of piRNA-disease associations based on embedding transformation graph convolutional network.

Xianghan Meng, Junliang Shang, Daohui Ge, Yi Yang, Tongdui Zhang, Jin-Xing Liu

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Article in BMC genomics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Xianghan MengSchool of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826, China.
Junliang ShangSchool of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826, China. shangjunliang110@163.com.
Daohui GeSchool of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826, China. dhge@qfnu.edu.cn.
Yi YangSchool of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826, China.
Tongdui ZhangScience and Technology Innovation Service Institution of Rizhao, Rizhao, 276826, China.
Jin-Xing LiuSchool of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826, China.
Qufu Normal University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 61972226National Natural Science Foundation of China 62172254
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPiwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) have been proven to be closely associated with human diseases. The identification of the potential associations between piRNA and disease is of great significance for complex diseases. Traditional "wet experiment" is time-consuming and high-priced, predicting the piRNA-disease associations by computational methods is of great significance.

methodsIn this paper, a method based on the embedding transformation graph convolution network is proposed to predict the piRNA-disease associations, named ETGPDA. Specifically, a heterogeneous network is constructed based on the similarity information of piRNA and disease, as well as the known piRNA-disease associations, which is applied to extract low-dimensional embeddings of piRNA and disease based on graph convolutional network with an attention mechanism. Furthermore, the embedding transformation module is developed for the problem of embedding space inconsistency, which is lightweighter, stronger learning ability and higher accuracy. Finally, the piRNA-disease association score is calculated by the similarity of the piRNA and disease embedding.

resultsEvaluated by fivefold cross-validation, the AUC of ETGPDA achieves 0.9603, which is better than the other five selected computational models. The case studies based on Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and Alzheimer's disease further prove the superior performance of ETGPDA.

conclusionsHence, the ETGPDA is an effective method for predicting the hidden piRNA-disease associations.

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Alzheimer DiseaseHead and Neck NeoplasmsHumansLearningPiwi-Interacting RNAResearch DesignPiwi-Interacting RNAEmbedding transformation moduleGraph convolutional networkHeterogeneous networkLayer attentionPiRNA-disease associations prediction

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