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Activity Number: 29 - SPEED: An Ensemble of Advances in Genomics and Genetics
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, July 29, 2018 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Abstract #328849 Presentation
Title: Novel Methods for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis with Empirical Memberships for Overlapping Genes
Author(s): Yun Zhang* and Xing Qiu
Companies: University of Rochester and University of Rochester
Keywords: Gene Set Enrichment Analysis; supervised learning; regularization; weighted test
Abstract:

Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is a powerful inferential tool that incorporates knowledge in a prior defined gene sets (e.g. molecular pathways) to high-throughput data analysis. Knowledge-based gene sets are available in bioinformatics resources such as the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database. In the generically constructed database, multifunctional genes may belong to several gene sets. However, most existing GSEA methods ignore the overlapping genes for study-specific analyses (e.g. disease-specific). In this study, we reveal the substantial overlapping in KEGG pathways. Under a disease-specific condition, we illustrate that the overlapping genes present pathway-specific activations. Further, we computationally decompose the overlapping genes in the study-specific context and develop appropriate similarity measures to assign their pathway memberships empirically. Unlike the traditional binary membership (i.e. either 0 or 1), the empirical membership is quantified using continuous weights. We conduct simulation studies and demonstrate through real data analyses. Lastly, all developed work are implemented with efficient algorithms in an R package.


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