Biomarker Discovery by Sparse Canonical Correlation Analysis of Complex Clinical Phenotypes of Tuberculosis and Malaria

Autor: Daniel D. Agranoff, Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes, Olugbemiro Sodeinde, Juho Rousu, John Shawe-Taylor
Přispěvatelé: Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
Bacterial Diseases
Proteomics
Multivariate statistics
Global Health
computer.software_genre
Correlation
0302 clinical medicine
ta518
Biomarker discovery
lcsh:QH301-705.5
ta515
0303 health sciences
ta213
Ecology
Systems Biology
Hematology
Genomics
3. Good health
Infectious Diseases
Phenotype
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Modeling and Simulation
Medicine
Data mining
Canonical correlation
Algorithms
Research Article
Computational biology
Biology
Mycobacterium
03 medical and health sciences
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Diagnostic Medicine
Parasitic Diseases
Genetics
Tuberculosis
Humans
Molecular Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Behavior and Systematics

030304 developmental biology
ta113
ta112
Univariate
Computational Biology
Reproducibility of Results
Omics
Malaria
lcsh:Biology (General)
Computer Science
ta5141
computer
Biomarkers
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: PLoS Computational Biology, Vol 9, Iss 4, p e1003018 (2013)
PLoS Computational Biology
ISSN: 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003018
Popis: Biomarker discovery aims to find small subsets of relevant variables in ‘omics data that correlate with the clinical syndromes of interest. Despite the fact that clinical phenotypes are usually characterized by a complex set of clinical parameters, current computational approaches assume univariate targets, e.g. diagnostic classes, against which associations are sought for. We propose an approach based on asymmetrical sparse canonical correlation analysis (SCCA) that finds multivariate correlations between the ‘omics measurements and the complex clinical phenotypes. We correlated plasma proteomics data to multivariate overlapping complex clinical phenotypes from tuberculosis and malaria datasets. We discovered relevant ‘omic biomarkers that have a high correlation to profiles of clinical measurements and are remarkably sparse, containing 1.5–3% of all ‘omic variables. We show that using clinical view projections we obtain remarkable improvements in diagnostic class prediction, up to 11% in tuberculosis and up to 5% in malaria. Our approach finds proteomic-biomarkers that correlate with complex combinations of clinical-biomarkers. Using the clinical-biomarkers improves the accuracy of diagnostic class prediction while not requiring the measurement plasma proteomic profiles of each subject. Our approach makes it feasible to use omics' data to build accurate diagnostic algorithms that can be deployed to community health centres lacking the expensive ‘omics measurement capabilities.
Author Summary Many infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria are challenging both for scientists trying to understand the biochemical basis of the diseases and for medical doctors making diagnosis. The challenges arise both from the dependence of the diseases on sets of proteins and from the complexity of the symptoms. Biomarkers denote small sets of measurements that correlate with the phenotype of interest. They have potential use both in advancing the basic biomedical research of infectious diseases and in facilitating predictive diagnostic tools. We propose a new method for biomarker discovery that works by finding canonical correlations between two sets of data, the plasma proteomic profiles and clinical profiles of the subjects. We show that the method is able to find candidate proteomic biomarkers that correlate with combinations of clinical variables, called the clinical biomarkers. Using the clinical biomarkers improves the accuracy of diagnostic class prediction while not requiring the expensive plasma proteomic profiles to be measured for each subject.
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