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标题：Learning regulatory programs by threshold SVD regression
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作者：Xin Ma ; Luo Xiao ; Wing Hung Wong 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2014
卷号：111
期号：44
页码：15675-15680
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1417808111
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：SignificanceWith the increase in high-throughput data in genomic studies, the study of regulatory relationships between multidimensional predictors and responses is becoming a common task. Although high-dimensional data hold promise for revealing rich and complex regulations, it remains challenging to infer the relations between tens of thousands of responses and thousands of predictors, as the desired signal must be searched among an overwhelming number of irrelevant responses. Here we show that by formulating the regulatory programs as hidden-intermediate nodes in a linear network, a sparsity-inducing modeling and inference approach is effective in extracting the regulatory relations among very high-dimensional responses and predictors, even when the sample size is much lower. We formulate a statistical model for the regulation of global gene expression by multiple regulatory programs and propose a thresholding singular value decomposition (T-SVD) regression method for learning such a model from data. Extensive simulations demonstrate that this method offers improved computational speed and higher sensitivity and specificity over competing approaches. The method is used to analyze microRNA (miRNA) and long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) consortium. The analysis yields previously unidentified insights into the combinatorial regulation of gene expression by noncoding RNAs, as well as findings that are supported by evidence from the literature.
关键词：regulatory program ; SVD ; sparse ; multivariate ; regression