Title

Gene set selection via LASSO penalized regression ( SLPR)

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-7-2017

Publication Title

Nucleic Acids Research

Department

Geisel School of Medicine

Abstract

Gene set testing is an important bioinformatics technique that addresses the challenges of power, interpretation and replication. To better support the analysis of large and highly overlapping gene set collections, researchers have recently developed a number of multiset methods that jointly evaluate all gene sets in a collection to identify a parsimonious group of functionally independent sets. Unfortunately, current multiset methods all use binary indicators for gene and gene set activity and assume that a gene is active if any containing gene set is active. This simplistic model limits performance on many types of genomic data. To address this limitation, we developed gene set Selection via LASSO Penalized Regression (SLPR), a novel mapping of multiset gene set testing to penalized multiple linear regression. The SLPR method assumes a linear relationship between continuous measures of gene activity and the activity of all gene sets in the collection. As we demonstrate via simulation studies and the analysis of TCGA data using MSigDB gene sets, the SLPR method outperforms existing multiset methods when the true biological process is well approximated by continuous activity measures and a linear association between genes and gene sets.

DOI

10.1093/nar/gkx291

Original Citation

Frost HR, Amos CI. Gene set selection via LASSO penalized regression (SLPR). Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Jul 7;45(12):e114. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx291. PMID: 28472344; PMCID: PMC5499546.

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