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Inferring data-specific micro-RNA function through the joint ranking of micro-RNA and pathways from matched micro-RNA and gene expression data.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

In practice, identifying and interpreting the functional impacts of the regulatory relationships between micro-RNA and messenger-RNA is non-trivial. The sheer scale of possible micro-RNA and messenger-RNA interactions can make the interpretation of results difficult.

Results

We propose a supervised framework, pMim, built upon concepts of significance combination, for jointly ranking regulatory micro-RNA and their potential functional impacts with respect to a condition of interest. Here, pMim directly tests if a micro-RNA is differentially expressed and if its predicted targets, which lie in a common biological pathway, have changed in the opposite direction. We leverage the information within existing micro-RNA target and pathway databases to stabilize the estimation and annotation of micro-RNA regulation making our approach suitable for datasets with small sample sizes. In addition to outputting meaningful and interpretable results, we demonstrate in a variety of datasets that the micro-RNA identified by pMim, in comparison to simpler existing approaches, are also more concordant with what is described in the literature.

Availability and implementation

This framework is implemented as an R function, pMim, in the package sydSeq available from http://www.ellispatrick.com/r-packages.

Contact

jean.yang@sydney.edu.au

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Patrick E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4635654 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Inferring data-specific micro-RNA function through the joint ranking of micro-RNA and pathways from matched micro-RNA and gene expression data.

Patrick Ellis E Buckley Michael M Müller Samuel S Lin David M DM Yang Jean Y H JY

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20150424 17

<h4>Motivation</h4>In practice, identifying and interpreting the functional impacts of the regulatory relationships between micro-RNA and messenger-RNA is non-trivial. The sheer scale of possible micro-RNA and messenger-RNA interactions can make the interpretation of results difficult.<h4>Results</h4>We propose a supervised framework, pMim, built upon concepts of significance combination, for jointly ranking regulatory micro-RNA and their potential functional impacts with respect to a condition ...[more]

PMID: 25910695

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Inferring data-specific micro-RNA function through the joint ranking of micro-RNA and pathways from matched micro-RNA and gene expression data.

Motivation

Results

Availability and implementation

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Supplementary information

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Inferring data-specific micro-RNA function through the joint ranking of micro-RNA and pathways from matched micro-RNA and gene expression data.

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