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ArticleComputers in biology and medicine2024

Mitigating pathogenesis for target discovery and disease subtyping.

Eric V Strobl, Thomas A Lasko, Eric R Gamazon

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Article in Computers in biology and medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Transcriptome-wide root causal inference.PLoS computational biology · 2025
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  3. Discovering Root Causal Genes with High Throughput Perturbations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  4. Transcriptome-Wide Root Causal Inference.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Eric V StroblDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37232, United States of America. Electronic address: eric.strobl@vumc.org.
Thomas A LaskoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States of America.
Eric R GamazonDepartment of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States of America.

Funding

Haplotype-aware models of gene and isoform expression with application to genetic studies of disease in diverse populationsR01GM140287 · NIGMS · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI GAMAZON, ERIC R, MOHAMMADI, PEJMAN · 2021 to 2024
$2.8M
Advancing Multi-Omics and Electronic Health Records Computational MethodologiesR01HG011138 · NHGRI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GAMAZON, ERIC R · 2020 to 2024
$1.6M
Data-Driven Guidance for Timing Repeated Inpatient Laboratory TestsR21LM013807 · NLM · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI LASKO, THOMAS · 2022 to 2023
$414k
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG011138NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140287NLM NIH HHS R21 LM013807
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatments ideally mitigate pathogenesis, or the detrimental effects of the root causes of disease. However, existing definitions of treatment effect fail to account for pathogenic mechanism. We therefore introduce the Treated Root causal Effects (TRE) metric which measures the ability of a treatment to modify root causal effects. We leverage TREs to automatically identify treatment targets and cluster patients who respond similarly to treatment. The proposed algorithm learns a partially linear causal model to extract the root causal effects of each variable and then estimates TREs for target discovery and downstream subtyping. We maintain interpretability even without assuming an invertible structural equation model. Experiments across a range of datasets corroborate the generality of the proposed approach.

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AlgorithmsModels, TheoreticalHumansCausal inferencePathogenesisPrecision medicineRoot causesTarget discovery

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PMID38417381
PMCPMC11256217

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