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Activity Number: 79 - Statistical Analysis for Networks
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, July 29, 2018 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Abstract #327161
Title: Estimating Heterogeneous Biomarker Networks and Their Effects on Disease Outcome
Author(s): Shanghong Xie* and Xiang Li and Donglin Zeng and Yuanjia Wang
Companies: Columbia University and Statistics and Decision Sciences, Janssen Research & Development, LLC and UNC Chapel Hill and Columbia University
Keywords: Graphical model; Regularized regression; Mediation analysis; Gray matter network; White matter connectivity; Huntington's disease
Abstract:

Biomarkers are often organized into networks, in which the strengths of network connections vary across subjects depending on subject-specific covariates. Variation of brain network connections, as subject-specific feature variables, has been found to predict disease clinical outcome in many studies. In this work, we develop a two-stage statistical method to estimate covariate-dependent brain networks to account for heterogeneity among network measures and evaluate their association with disease clinical manifestation. In the first stage, we propose a conditional Gaussian graphical model with mean and precision matrix depending on covariates to obtain subject-specific networks. In the second stage, we model the network connections estimated from the first step jointly with the biomarkers and covariates to identify important features of a clinical outcome via regularized regression. We assess the performance of our proposed method by extensive simulation studies and apply the method to a Huntington's disease (HD) study to investigate the effect of HD causal gene on the rate of change in motor symptom as mediated through brain subcortical and cortical gray matter atrophy connections.


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