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Activity Number: 384 - Next-Generation Sequencing and High-Dimensional Data
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 12, 2021 : 12:00 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract #318732
Title: Detecting Differential Expressed/Spliced Transcripts That Are Associated with Continuous Clinical Covariates, Including Survival Time
Author(s): Huining Kang* and Xichen Li
Companies: Univeristy of New Mexico and University of New Mexico
Keywords: differential isoform expression; time-to-event; missing data; mixture model; EM-algorithm
Abstract:

RNA-sequencing technology has made it possible to reconstruct and quantify the alternative spliced isoform transcripts. We have recently developed a mixed-effects model approach for identifying genes with differentially expressed/spliced transcripts associated with categorical clinical characteristics (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33035235/). We extend the method to identifying those that are associated with the continuous variables, including survival time. We propose a mixture model approach coped with the EM-Algorithm to make the best use of the observations with missing/censoring data to improve the statistic power. We demonstrate our method through application to an RNA-Sequencing dataset from a study of children’s acute myeloid leukemia (AML).


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