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Measuring disease similarity and predicting disease-related ncRNAs by a novel method.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Similar diseases are always caused by similar molecular origins, such as diasease-related protein-coding genes (PCGs). And the molecular associations reflect their similarity. Therefore, current methods for calculating disease similarity often utilized functional interactions of PCGs. Besides, the existing methods have neglected a fact that genes could also be associated in the gene functional network (GFN) based on intermediate nodes. METHODS:Here we presented a novel method, InfDisSim, to deduce the similarity of diseases. InfDisSim utilized the whole network based on random walk with damping to model the information flow. A benchmark set of similar disease pairs was employed to evaluate the performance of InfDisSim. RESULTS:The region beneath the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) was calculated to assess the performance. As a result, InfDisSim reaches a high AUC (0.9786) which indicates a very good performance. Furthermore, after calculating the disease similarity by the InfDisSim, we reconfirmed that similar diseases tend to have common therapeutic drugs (Pearson correlation ?2?=?0.1315, p?=?2.2e-16). Finally, the disease similarity computed by infDisSim was employed to construct a miRNA similarity network (MSN) and lncRNA similarity network (LSN), which were further exploited to predict potential associations of lncRNA-disease pairs and miRNA-disease pairs, respectively. High AUC (0.9893, 0.9007) based on leave-one-out cross validation shows that the LSN and MSN is very appropriate for predicting novel disease-related lncRNAs and miRNAs, respectively. CONCLUSIONS:The high AUC based on benchmark data indicates the method performs well. The method is valuable in the prediction of disease-related lncRNAs and miRNAs.

SUBMITTER: Hu Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5751624 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Measuring disease similarity and predicting disease-related ncRNAs by a novel method.

Hu Yang Y Zhou Meng M Shi Hongbo H Ju Hong H Jiang Qinghua Q Cheng Liang L

BMC medical genomics 20171228 Suppl 5

<h4>Background</h4>Similar diseases are always caused by similar molecular origins, such as diasease-related protein-coding genes (PCGs). And the molecular associations reflect their similarity. Therefore, current methods for calculating disease similarity often utilized functional interactions of PCGs. Besides, the existing methods have neglected a fact that genes could also be associated in the gene functional network (GFN) based on intermediate nodes.<h4>Methods</h4>Here we presented a novel ...[more]

PMID: 29297338

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Project description:BACKGROUND:Protein complexes formed by non-covalent interaction among proteins play important roles in cellular functions. Computational and purification methods have been used to identify many protein complexes and their cellular functions. However, their roles in terms of causing disease have not been well discovered yet. There exist only a few studies for the identification of disease-associated protein complexes. However, they mostly utilize complicated heterogeneous networks which are constructed based on an out-of-date database of phenotype similarity network collected from literature. In addition, they only apply for diseases for which tissue-specific data exist. METHODS:In this study, we propose a method to identify novel disease-protein complex associations. First, we introduce a framework to construct functional similarity protein complex networks where two protein complexes are functionally connected by either shared protein elements, shared annotating GO terms or based on protein interactions between elements in each protein complex. Second, we propose a simple but effective neighborhood-based algorithm, which yields a local similarity measure, to rank disease candidate protein complexes. RESULTS:Comparing the predictive performance of our proposed algorithm with that of two state-of-the-art network propagation algorithms including one we used in our previous study, we found that it performed statistically significantly better than that of these two algorithms for all the constructed functional similarity protein complex networks. In addition, it ran about 32 times faster than these two algorithms. Moreover, our proposed method always achieved high performance in terms of AUC values irrespective of the ways to construct the functional similarity protein complex networks and the used algorithms. The performance of our method was also higher than that reported in some existing methods which were based on complicated heterogeneous networks. Finally, we also tested our method with prostate cancer and selected the top 100 highly ranked candidate protein complexes. Interestingly, 69 of them were evidenced since at least one of their protein elements are known to be associated with prostate cancer. CONCLUSIONS:Our proposed method, including the framework to construct functional similarity protein complex networks and the neighborhood-based algorithm on these networks, could be used for identification of novel disease-protein complex associations.

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Measuring disease similarity and predicting disease-related ncRNAs by a novel method.

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Measuring disease similarity and predicting disease-related ncRNAs by a novel method.

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