Title
Rank-Similarity Measures For Comparing Gene Prioritizations: A Case Study In Autism
Abstract
We discuss the challenge of comparing three gene prioritization methods: network propagation, integer linear programming rank aggregation (RA), and statistical RA. These methods are based on different biological categories and estimate disease-gene association. Previously proposed comparison schemes are based on three measures of performance: receiver operating curve, area under the curve, and median rank ratio. Although they may capture important aspects of gene prioritization performance, they may fail to capture important differences in the rankings of individual genes. We suggest that comparison schemes could be improved by also considering recently proposed measures of similarity between gene rankings. We tested this suggestion on comparison schemes for prioritizations of genes associated with autism that were obtained using brain- and tissue-specific data. Our results show the effectiveness of our measures of similarity in clustering brain regions based on their relevance to autism.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1089/cmb.2020.0244
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
autism, comparative analysis, disease&#8211, gene association, gene prioritization
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1066-5277
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
C. Guerra146752.24
Sarang Joshi200.34
Yinquan Lu300.34
Francesco Palini401.69
Umberto Ferraro Petrillo519824.16
Jarek Rossignac63101330.15