Title
Gene set analysis using sufficient dimension reduction.
Abstract
BackgroundGene set analysis (GSA) aims to evaluate the association between the expression of biological pathways, or a priori defined gene sets, and a particular phenotype. Numerous GSA methods have been proposed to assess the enrichment of sets of genes. However, most methods are developed with respect to a specific alternative scenario, such as a differential mean pattern or a differential coexpression. Moreover, a very limited number of methods can handle either binary, categorical, or continuous phenotypes. In this paper, we develop two novel GSA tests, called SDRs, based on the sufficient dimension reduction technique, which aims to capture sufficient information about the relationship between genes and the phenotype. The advantages of our proposed methods are that they allow for categorical and continuous phenotypes, and they are also able to identify a variety of enriched gene sets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1186/s12859-016-0928-6
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gene set analysis, Differential coexpression, Sufficient dimension reduction, Non-linear associations
Gene,Phenotype,Biology,Categorical variable,A priori and a posteriori,Bioinformatics,Genetics,Gene regulatory network,Sufficient dimension reduction,DNA microarray,Gene expression profiling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
17
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huey-Miin Hsueh1734.88
Chen-An Tsai212311.12