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Missing value imputation in proximity extension assay-based targeted proteomics data.

ABSTRACT: Targeted proteomics utilizing antibody-based proximity extension assays provides sensitive and highly specific quantifications of plasma protein levels. Multivariate analysis of this data is hampered by frequent missing values (random or left censored), calling for imputation approaches. While appropriate missing-value imputation methods exist, benchmarks of their performance in targeted proteomics data are lacking. Here, we assessed the performance of two methods for imputation of values missing completely at random, the previously top-benchmarked 'missForest' and the recently published 'GSimp' method. Evaluation was accomplished by comparing imputed with remeasured relative concentrations of 91 inflammation related circulating proteins in 86 samples from a cohort of 645 patients with venous thromboembolism. The median Pearson correlation between imputed and remeasured protein expression values was 69.0% for missForest and 71.6% for GSimp (p = 5.8e-4). Imputation with missForest resulted in stronger reduction of variance compared to GSimp (median relative variance of 25.3% vs. 68.6%, p = 2.4e-16) and undesired larger bias in downstream analyses. Irrespective of the imputation method used, the 91 imputed proteins revealed large variations in imputation accuracy, driven by differences in signal to noise ratio and information overlap between proteins. In summary, GSimp outperformed missForest, while both methods show good overall imputation accuracy with large variations between proteins.

SUBMITTER: Lenz M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7735586 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Missing value imputation in proximity extension assay-based targeted proteomics data.

Lenz Michael M Schulz Andreas A Koeck Thomas T Rapp Steffen S Nagler Markus M Sauer Madeleine M Eggebrecht Lisa L Ten Cate Vincent V Panova-Noeva Marina M Prochaska Jürgen H JH Lackner Karl J KJ Münzel Thomas T Leineweber Kirsten K Wild Philipp S PS Andrade-Navarro Miguel A MA

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Targeted proteomics utilizing antibody-based proximity extension assays provides sensitive and highly specific quantifications of plasma protein levels. Multivariate analysis of this data is hampered by frequent missing values (random or left censored), calling for imputation approaches. While appropriate missing-value imputation methods exist, benchmarks of their performance in targeted proteomics data are lacking. Here, we assessed the performance of two methods for imputation of values missin ...[more]

PMID: 33315883

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