Title
CoMI: consensus mutual information for tissue-specific gene signatures
Abstract
The gene signatures have been considered as a promising early diagnosis and prognostic analysis to identify disease subtypes and to determine subsequent treatments. Tissue-specific gene signatures of a specific disease are an emergency requirement for precision medicine to improve the accuracy and reduce the side effects. Currently, many approaches have been proposed for identifying gene signatures for diagnosis and prognostic. However, they often lack of tissue-specific gene signatures. Here, we propose a new method, consensus mutual information (CoMI) for analyzing omics data and discovering gene signatures. CoMI can identify differentially expressed genes in multiple cancer omics data for reflecting both cancer-related and tissue-specific signatures, such as Cell growth and death in multiple cancers, Xenobiotics biodegradation and metabolism in LIHC, and Nervous system in GBM. Our method identified 50-gene signatures effectively distinguishing the GBM patients into high- and low-risk groups (log-rank p = 0.006) for diagnosis and prognosis. Our results demonstrate that CoMI can identify significant and consistent gene signatures with tissue-specific properties and can predict clinical outcomes for interested diseases. We believe that CoMI is useful for analyzing omics data and discovering gene signatures of diseases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1186/s12859-022-04682-2
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Tissue-specific gene signature, Prognostic gene signature, Omics data
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1471-2105
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sing-Han Huang111.75
Yu-Shu Lo2404.57
Yong-Chun Luo300.34
Yi-Hsuan Chuang4276.37
Jung-Yu Lee511.41
Jinn-moon Yang636435.89