Title: Integrated analysis of pharmacologic, clinical and SNP microarray data using Projection Onto the Most Interesting Statistical Evidence with Adaptive Permutation Testing

Authors: Stan Pounds, Xueyuan Cao, Cheng Cheng, Jun J. Yang, Dario Campana, Ching-Hon Pui, William E. Evans, Mary V. Relling

Addresses: Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. ' Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. ' Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. ' Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. ' Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. ' Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. ' Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. ' Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA

Abstract: We recently developed the Projection Onto the Most Interesting Statistical Evidence (PROMISE) procedure that uses prior biological knowledge to guide an integrated analysis of gene expression data with multiple biological and clinical endpoints. Here, PROMISE is adapted to the integrated analysis of pharmacologic, clinical and genome-wide genotype data. An efficient permutation-testing algorithm is introduced so that PROMISE is computationally feasible in this higher-dimension setting. In the analysis of a paediatric leukaemia data set, PROMISE effectively identifies genomic features that exhibit a biologically meaningful pattern of association with multiple endpoint variables.

Keywords: PROMISE; integrated statistical analysis; genomic dates; adaptive permutation testing; biologically meaningful; correlation patterns; statistical genomics; computational genomics; linear combinations; association statistics; bioinformatics; prior knowledge; data analysis; paediatric leukaemia; clinical data; pharmacological data; SNP microarray data; gene expression data.

DOI: 10.1504/IJDMB.2011.039174

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 2011 Vol.5 No.2, pp.143 - 157

Published online: 24 Jan 2015 *

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