Combining gene expression and interaction network data to improve kidney lesion score prediction
by Davoud Moulavi; Mohsen Hajiloo; Jorg Sander; Philip F. Halloran; Russell Greiner
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), Vol. 8, No. 1/2, 2012

Abstract: Current method of diagnosing kidney rejection based on histopathology of renal biopsies in form of lesion scores is error-prone. Researchers use gene expression microarrays in combination of machine learning to build better kidney rejection predictors. However the high dimensionality of data makes this task challenging and compels application of feature selection methods. We present a method for predicting lesions using combination of statistical and biological feature selection methods along with an ensemble learning technique. Results show that combining highly interacting genes (Hub Genes) from protein-protein interaction network with genes selected by squared t-test method brings the most accurate kidney lesion score predictor.

Online publication date: Fri, 05-Dec-2014

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