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Genetic association studies for gene expressions: permutation-based mutual information in a comparison with standard ANOVA and as a novel approach for feature selection
Mutual information (MI) is a robust nonparametric statistical approach for identifying associations between genotypes and gene expression levels. Using the data of Problem 1 provided for the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15, we first compared a quantitative MI (Tsalenko et al. 2006 J Bioinform Comput Bi...
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author | Szymczak, Silke Nuzzo, Angelo Fuchsberger, Christian Schwarz, Daniel F Ziegler, Andreas Bellazzi, Riccardo Igl, Bernd-Wolfgang |
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description | Mutual information (MI) is a robust nonparametric statistical approach for identifying associations between genotypes and gene expression levels. Using the data of Problem 1 provided for the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15, we first compared a quantitative MI (Tsalenko et al. 2006 J Bioinform Comput Biol 4:259–4) with the standard analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis (KW) test. We then proposed a novel feature selection approach using MI in a classification scenario to address the small n - large p problem and compared it with a feature selection that relies on an asymptotic χ(2 ) distribution. In both applications, we used a permutation-based approach for evaluating the significance of MI. Substantial discrepancies in significance were observed between MI, ANOVA, and KW that can be explained by different empirical distributions of the data. In contrast to ANOVA and KW, MI detects shifts in location when the data are non-normally distributed, skewed, or contaminated with outliers. ANOVA but not MI is often significant if one genotype with a small frequency had a remarkable difference in the average gene expression level relative to the other two genotypes. MI depends on genotype frequencies and cannot detect these differences. In the classification scenario, we show that our novel approach for feature selection identifies a smaller list of markers with higher accuracy compared to the standard method. In conclusion, permutation-based MI approaches provide reliable and flexible statistical frameworks which seem to be well suited for data that are non-normal, skewed, or have an otherwise peculiar distribution. They merit further methodological investigation. |
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spelling | pubmed-23598722008-05-06 Genetic association studies for gene expressions: permutation-based mutual information in a comparison with standard ANOVA and as a novel approach for feature selection Szymczak, Silke Nuzzo, Angelo Fuchsberger, Christian Schwarz, Daniel F Ziegler, Andreas Bellazzi, Riccardo Igl, Bernd-Wolfgang BMC Proc Proceedings Mutual information (MI) is a robust nonparametric statistical approach for identifying associations between genotypes and gene expression levels. Using the data of Problem 1 provided for the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15, we first compared a quantitative MI (Tsalenko et al. 2006 J Bioinform Comput Biol 4:259–4) with the standard analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis (KW) test. We then proposed a novel feature selection approach using MI in a classification scenario to address the small n - large p problem and compared it with a feature selection that relies on an asymptotic χ(2 ) distribution. In both applications, we used a permutation-based approach for evaluating the significance of MI. Substantial discrepancies in significance were observed between MI, ANOVA, and KW that can be explained by different empirical distributions of the data. In contrast to ANOVA and KW, MI detects shifts in location when the data are non-normally distributed, skewed, or contaminated with outliers. ANOVA but not MI is often significant if one genotype with a small frequency had a remarkable difference in the average gene expression level relative to the other two genotypes. MI depends on genotype frequencies and cannot detect these differences. In the classification scenario, we show that our novel approach for feature selection identifies a smaller list of markers with higher accuracy compared to the standard method. In conclusion, permutation-based MI approaches provide reliable and flexible statistical frameworks which seem to be well suited for data that are non-normal, skewed, or have an otherwise peculiar distribution. They merit further methodological investigation. BioMed Central 2007-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2359872/ /pubmed/18466593 Text en Copyright © 2007 Szymczak et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Proceedings Szymczak, Silke Nuzzo, Angelo Fuchsberger, Christian Schwarz, Daniel F Ziegler, Andreas Bellazzi, Riccardo Igl, Bernd-Wolfgang Genetic association studies for gene expressions: permutation-based mutual information in a comparison with standard ANOVA and as a novel approach for feature selection |
title | Genetic association studies for gene expressions: permutation-based mutual information in a comparison with standard ANOVA and as a novel approach for feature selection |
title_full | Genetic association studies for gene expressions: permutation-based mutual information in a comparison with standard ANOVA and as a novel approach for feature selection |
title_fullStr | Genetic association studies for gene expressions: permutation-based mutual information in a comparison with standard ANOVA and as a novel approach for feature selection |
title_full_unstemmed | Genetic association studies for gene expressions: permutation-based mutual information in a comparison with standard ANOVA and as a novel approach for feature selection |
title_short | Genetic association studies for gene expressions: permutation-based mutual information in a comparison with standard ANOVA and as a novel approach for feature selection |
title_sort | genetic association studies for gene expressions: permutation-based mutual information in a comparison with standard anova and as a novel approach for feature selection |
topic | Proceedings |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2359872/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18466593 |
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