Deciphering the associations between gene expression and copy number alteration using a sparse double Laplacian shrinkage approach

Xingjie Shi, Qing Zhao, Jian Huang, Yang Xie, Shuangge Ma

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Abstract

Motivation: Both gene expression levels (GEs) and copy number alterations (CNAs) have important biological implications. GEs are partly regulated by CNAs, and much effort has been devoted to understanding their relations. The regulation analysis is challenging with one gene expression possibly regulated by multiple CNAs and one CNA potentially regulating the expressions of multiple genes. The correlations among GEs and among CNAs make the analysis even more complicated. The existing methods have limitations and cannot comprehensively describe the regulation. Results: A sparse double Laplacian shrinkage method is developed. It jointly models the effects of multiple CNAs on multiple GEs. Penalization is adopted to achieve sparsity and identify the regulation relationships. Network adjacency is computed to describe the interconnections among GEs and among CNAs. Two Laplacian shrinkage penalties are imposed to accommodate the network adjacency measures. Simulation shows that the proposed method outperforms the competing alternatives with more accurate marker identification. The Cancer Genome Atlas data are analysed to further demonstrate advantages of the proposed method.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3977-3983
Number of pages7
JournalBioinformatics
Volume31
Issue number24
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Jul 2015
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • General Medicine
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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