Evaluation of associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction in the presence of noise

The advancements in genetic epidemiology have focused more on understanding the associations and functional relationships among the genes. Identifying the susceptible genes and their interaction effects over the complex traits remains statistically and computationally challenging. An associative cla...

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Main Author: Krishna, Aneesh
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55037
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description The advancements in genetic epidemiology have focused more on understanding the associations and functional relationships among the genes. Identifying the susceptible genes and their interaction effects over the complex traits remains statistically and computationally challenging. An associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction method (MDRAC) was proposed to improve the identification of multi-locus interacting genes associated with a disease. The method was evaluated for one to six loci by varying heritability, minor allele frequency, case–control ratios, and sample size. The experimental results demonstrated significant improvements in the accuracy over the previous methods. However, the performance of MDRAC in the presence of noise due to genotyping error, missing data, phenocopy, and genetic heterogeneity is unknown. The goal of this study is to evaluate MDRAC for identifying single nucleotide polymorphism interactions in the presence of noise. Several experiments are conducted on simulated datasets and on a published dataset to demonstrate the performance of MDRAC. On average, the results showed improved performance over the previous MDR method in all the models. However, the performance of MDRAC is reduced in the presence of phenocopy and genetic heterogeneity, or their combinations with other sources of noise.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-550372017-09-13T15:49:50Z Evaluation of associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction in the presence of noise Krishna, Aneesh The advancements in genetic epidemiology have focused more on understanding the associations and functional relationships among the genes. Identifying the susceptible genes and their interaction effects over the complex traits remains statistically and computationally challenging. An associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction method (MDRAC) was proposed to improve the identification of multi-locus interacting genes associated with a disease. The method was evaluated for one to six loci by varying heritability, minor allele frequency, case–control ratios, and sample size. The experimental results demonstrated significant improvements in the accuracy over the previous methods. However, the performance of MDRAC in the presence of noise due to genotyping error, missing data, phenocopy, and genetic heterogeneity is unknown. The goal of this study is to evaluate MDRAC for identifying single nucleotide polymorphism interactions in the presence of noise. Several experiments are conducted on simulated datasets and on a published dataset to demonstrate the performance of MDRAC. On average, the results showed improved performance over the previous MDR method in all the models. However, the performance of MDRAC is reduced in the presence of phenocopy and genetic heterogeneity, or their combinations with other sources of noise. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55037 10.1007/s13721-016-0114-9 restricted
spellingShingle Krishna, Aneesh
Evaluation of associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction in the presence of noise
title Evaluation of associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction in the presence of noise
title_full Evaluation of associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction in the presence of noise
title_fullStr Evaluation of associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction in the presence of noise
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction in the presence of noise
title_short Evaluation of associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction in the presence of noise
title_sort evaluation of associative classification-based multifactor dimensionality reduction in the presence of noise
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55037