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Cross-platform prediction of gene expression signatures.

ABSTRACT: Gene expression signatures can predict the activation of oncogenic pathways and other phenotypes of interest via quantitative models that combine the expression levels of multiple genes. However, as the number of platforms to measure genome-wide gene expression proliferates, there is an increasing need to develop models that can be ported across diverse platforms. Because of the range of technologies that measure gene expression, the resulting signal values can vary greatly. To understand how this variation can affect the prediction of gene expression signatures, we have investigated the ability of gene expression signatures to predict pathway activation across Affymetrix and Illumina microarrays. We hybridized the same RNA samples to both platforms and compared the resultant gene expression readings, as well as the signature predictions. Using a new approach to map probes across platforms, we found that the genes in the signatures from the two platforms were highly similar, and that the predictions they generated were also strongly correlated. This demonstrates that our method can map probes from Affymetrix and Illumina microarrays, and that this mapping can be used to predict gene expression signatures across platforms.

SUBMITTER: Lin SH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3828325 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cross-platform prediction of gene expression signatures.

Lin Shu-Hong SH Beane Lauren L Chasse Dawn D Zhu Kevin W KW Mathey-Prevot Bernard B Chang Jeffrey T JT

PloS one 20131114 11

Gene expression signatures can predict the activation of oncogenic pathways and other phenotypes of interest via quantitative models that combine the expression levels of multiple genes. However, as the number of platforms to measure genome-wide gene expression proliferates, there is an increasing need to develop models that can be ported across diverse platforms. Because of the range of technologies that measure gene expression, the resulting signal values can vary greatly. To understand how th ...[more]

PMID: 24244455

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Project description:MotivationCross-(multi)platform normalization of gene-expression microarray data remains an unresolved issue. Despite the existence of several algorithms, they are either constrained by the need to normalize all samples of all platforms together, compromising scalability and reuse, by adherence to the platforms of a specific provider, or simply by poor performance. In addition, many of the methods presented in the literature have not been specifically tested against multi-platform data and/or other methods applicable in this context. Thus, we set out to develop a normalization algorithm appropriate for gene-expression studies based on multiple, potentially large microarray sets collected along multiple platforms and at different times, applicable in systematic studies aimed at extracting knowledge from the wealth of microarray data available in public repositories; for example, for the extraction of Real-World Data to complement data from Randomized Controlled Trials. Our main focus or criterion for performance was on the capacity of the algorithm to properly separate samples from different biological groups.ResultsWe present CuBlock, an algorithm addressing this objective, together with a strategy to validate cross-platform normalization methods. To validate the algorithm and benchmark it against existing methods, we used two distinct data sets, one specifically generated for testing and standardization purposes and one from an actual experimental study. Using these data sets, we benchmarked CuBlock against ComBat (Johnson et al., 2007), UPC (Piccolo et al., 2013), YuGene (Lê Cao et al., 2014), DBNorm (Meng et al., 2017), Shambhala (Borisov et al., 2019) and a simple log2 transform as reference. We note that many other popular normalization methods are not applicable in this context. CuBlock was the only algorithm in this group that could always and clearly differentiate the underlying biological groups after mixing the data, from up to six different platforms in this study.AvailabilityCuBlock can be downloaded from https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/77882-cublock.Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Cross-platform prediction of gene expression signatures.

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Cross-platform prediction of gene expression signatures.

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