Title
Prognostic transcriptional association networks: a new supervised approach based on regression trees.
Abstract
Motivation: The application of information encoded in molecular networks for prognostic purposes is a crucial objective of systems biomedicine. This approach has not been widely investigated in the cardiovascular research area. Within this area, the prediction of clinical outcomes after suffering a heart attack would represent a significant step forward. We developed a new quantitative prediction-based method for this prognostic problem based on the discovery of clinically relevant transcriptional association networks. This method integrates regression trees and clinical class-specific networks, and can be applied to other clinical domains. Results: Before analyzing our cardiovascular disease dataset, we tested the usefulness of our approach on a benchmark dataset with control and disease patients. We also compared it to several algorithms to infer transcriptional association networks and classification models. Comparative results provided evidence of the prediction power of our approach. Next, we discovered new models for predicting good and bad outcomes after myocardial infarction. Using blood-derived gene expression data, our models reported areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve above 0.70. Our model could also outperform different techniques based on co-expressed gene modules. We also predicted processes that may represent novel therapeutic targets for heart disease, such as the synthesis of leucine and isoleucine.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1093/bioinformatics/btq645
BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
algorithms,gene regulatory networks,myocardial infarction,linear models,regression tree,gene expression
Data mining,Systems biomedicine,Disease,Receiver operating characteristic,Regression,Linear model,Computer science,Software,Bioinformatics,Gene regulatory network,Heart disease
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
2
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
11
Authors
7