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Activity Number: 146
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 3, 2009 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #302814
Title: Identification of Cancer-Associated Gene Pathways from Analysis of Expression Data
Author(s): Shuangge Ma*+ and Michael Kosorok
Companies: Yale University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address: , , CT, 06510,
Keywords: large p, small n ; pathway ; penalization
Abstract:

Analysis of cancer genomic data can be challenging because of the high dimensionality and pathway structure of the covariates. With cancer gene expression data and pathway structure defined a priori, we first use dimension reduction methods to define a small number of representative features for each pathway. Penalization is then used to identify gene pathways and representative features within selected pathways that are associated with cancer clinical outcomes in the joint modeling of multiple gene pathways. We investigate consistency of gene pathway selection. Analysis of multiple cancer studies suggests that the proposed approach can identify biologically important gene pathways missed by using alternative approaches.


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