Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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552
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
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Abstract #311696
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Title:
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Bayesian Nonlinear Model Selection for Gene Regulatory Networks
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Author(s):
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Yang Ni*+ and Francesco Stingo and Veera Baladandayuthapani
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Companies:
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Rice University and MD Anderson Cancer Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Keywords:
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Directed acyclic graph ;
P-splines ;
Model selection ;
Gene regulatory network ;
Hierarchical model ;
Mixture prior
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Abstract:
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Gene regulatory networks represent the regulatory relationships between genes and their products and are important for exploring and defining the underlying biological processes of cellular systems. We develop a novel framework to recover the structure of nonlinear gene regulatory networks using semiparametric spline-based directed acyclic graphical models. Our usage of splines allows the model to have both flexibility in capturing nonlinear dependencies as well as control of overfitting via shrinkage, using mixed model representations of penalized splines. We propose a novel discrete mixture prior on the smoothing parameter of the splines that allows for simultaneous selection of both linear and nonlinear functional relationships as well as inducing sparsity in the edge selection. Using simulation studies, we demonstrate the superior performance of our methods in comparison with several existing approaches in terms of network reconstruction and functional selection. We apply our methods to a gene expression dataset in glioblastoma multiforme, which reveals several interesting and biologically relevant nonlinear relationships.
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