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MousiPLIER: A Mouse Pathway-Level Information Extractor Model.

Shuo Zhang, Benjamin J Heil, Weiguang Mao, Maria Chikina, Casey S Greene, Elizabeth A Heller

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Article in eNeuro, 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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  1. Corticosterone accelerates behavioral inflexibility via plasticity-related gene expression in the dorsal striatum.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  2. PLIERv2: bigger, better and faster.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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Shuo ZhangDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
Benjamin J HeilGenomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
Weiguang MaoDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260.
Maria ChikinaDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260.
Casey S GreeneDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 casey.s.greene@cuanschutz.edu eheller@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Elizabeth A HellerDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 casey.s.greene@cuanschutz.edu eheller@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2984-8705

Funding

Epigenetic mechanisms of sustained transcription across cocaine abstinenceR01DA052465 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Elizabeth A Heller · 2021 to 2026
$4.0M
Network-based algorithms for target identification and drug repositioning from genetic associationsR01HG010067 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GREENE, CASEY S · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
Epigenetic regulation of Cdk5 in cognition and emotionR01MH126027 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Elizabeth A Heller · 2023 to 2026
$2.2M
Pharmacological activators of Nr4a1 for the treatment of cocaine use disordersU18DA052513 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HELLER, ELIZABETH A · 2020 to 2020
$233k
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010067NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA052465NIDA NIH HHS U18 DA052513NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH126027
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-throughput gene expression profiling measures individual gene expression across conditions. However, genes are regulated in complex networks, not as individual entities, limiting the interpretability of gene expression data. Machine learning models that incorporate prior biological knowledge are a powerful tool to extract meaningful biology from gene expression data. Pathway-level information extractor (PLIER) is an unsupervised machine learning method that defines biological pathways by leveraging the vast amount of published transcriptomic data. PLIER converts gene expression data into known pathway gene sets, termed latent variables (LVs), to substantially reduce data dimensionality and improve interpretability. In the current study, we trained the first mouse PLIER model on 190,111 mouse brain RNA-sequencing samples, the greatest amount of training data ever used by PLIER. We then validated the mousiPLIER approach in a study of microglia and astrocyte gene expression across mouse brain aging. mousiPLIER identified biological pathways that are significantly associated with aging, including one latent variable (LV41) corresponding to striatal signal. To gain further insight into the genes contained in LV41, we performed

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BrainAgingAnimalsAstrocytesGene Expression ProfilingMachine LearningMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicrogliaTranscriptomeUnsupervised Machine Learningaginggene expressionmachine learning

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