A Hybrid Approach of Gene Sets and Single Genes for the Prediction of Survival Risks with Gene Expression Data
- Authors
- Seok, Junhee; Davis, Ronald W.; Xiao, Wenzhong
- Issue Date
- 1-5월-2015
- Publisher
- PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
- Citation
- PLOS ONE, v.10, no.5
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- PLOS ONE
- Volume
- 10
- Number
- 5
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/93601
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0122103
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- Abstract
- Accumulated biological knowledge is often encoded as gene sets, collections of genes associated with similar biological functions or pathways. The use of gene sets in the analyses of high-throughput gene expression data has been intensively studied and applied in clinical research. However, the main interest remains in finding modules of biological knowledge, or corresponding gene sets, significantly associated with disease conditions. Risk prediction from censored survival times using gene sets hasn't been well studied. In this work, we propose a hybrid method that uses both single gene and gene set information together to predict patient survival risks from gene expression profiles. In the proposed method, gene sets provide context-level information that is poorly reflected by single genes. Complementarily, single genes help to supplement incomplete information of gene sets due to our imperfect biomedical knowledge. Through the tests over multiple data sets of cancer and trauma injury, the proposed method showed robust and improved performance compared with the conventional approaches with only single genes or gene sets solely. Additionally, we examined the prediction result in the trauma injury data, and showed that the modules of biological knowledge used in the prediction by the proposed method were highly interpretable in biology. A wide range of survival prediction problems in clinical genomics is expected to benefit from the use of biological knowledge.
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