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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2024

Bayesian gene set benchmark dose estimation for "omic" responses.

Daniel Zilber, Kyle P Messier, John House, Fred Parham, Scott S Auerbach, Matthew W Wheeler

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Modeling omics dose-response at the pathway level with DoseRider.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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6 authors.

Daniel ZilberDivision of Intramural Research, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4387-0271
Kyle P MessierDivision of Intramural Research, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9508-9623
John HouseDivision of Intramural Research, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8447-7871
Fred ParhamDivision of Translational Toxicology, Predictive Toxicology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC 27713, United States.
Scott S AuerbachDivision of Translational Toxicology, Predictive Toxicology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC 27713, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6294-3069
Matthew W WheelerDivision of Intramural Research, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States.

Funding

Spatiotemporal Health Analytics: Geospatial connections to toxicologyZIAES103368 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MESSIER, KYLE · 2021 to 2025
$5.8M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA ES103368National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Translational Toxicology, Division of Intramural Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationEstimating a toxic reference point using tools like the benchmark dose (BMD) is a critical step in setting policy to regulate pollution and ensure safe environments. Toxicity can be measured for different endpoints, including changes in gene expression and histopathology for various tissues, and is typically explored one gene or tissue at a time in a univariate setting that ignores correlation. In this work, we develop a multivariate estimation procedure to estimate the BMD for specified gene sets. Our approach extends the foundational univariate approach by accounting for correlation in a statistically principled way.

resultsWe illustrate the method using data from a 5-day rat study and Hallmark gene sets and compare to existing BMD results computed by the EPA for both gene sets and apical histopathology endpoints. In contrast to previous ad-hoc methods, our principled approach provides the needed extension to bring the foundational univariate method into the multivariate world of transcriptomics. In addition to use in a regulatory setting, our method can provide hypothesis generation when gene sets correspond to mechanistic pathways. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: BS-BMD is implemented in R and C++ and available at https://github.com/NIEHS/BS-BMD.

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Gene Expression ProfilingAnimalsBayes TheoremBenchmarkingDose-Response Relationship, DrugRatsSoftware

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PMID39786864
PMCPMC11783320

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