Gui, J;
Moore, JH;
Williams, SM;
Andrews, P;
Hillege, HL;
van der Harst, P;
Navis, G;
... Gilbert-Diamond, D; + view all
(2013)
A Simple and Computationally Efficient Approach to Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Analysis of Gene-Gene Interactions for Quantitative Traits.
PLoS One
, 8
(6)
, Article e66545. 10.1371/journal.pone.0066545.
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Abstract
We present an extension of the two-class multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) algorithm that enables detection and characterization of epistatic SNP-SNP interactions in the context of a quantitative trait. The proposed Quantitative MDR (QMDR) method handles continuous data by modifying MDR's constructive induction algorithm to use a T-test. QMDR replaces the balanced accuracy metric with a T-test statistic as the score to determine the best interaction model. We used a simulation to identify the empirical distribution of QMDR's testing score. We then applied QMDR to genetic data from the ongoing prospective Prevention of Renal and Vascular End-Stage Disease (PREVEND) study.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Simple and Computationally Efficient Approach to Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Analysis of Gene-Gene Interactions for Quantitative Traits |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0066545 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066545 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 Gui et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC3689797 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1414431 |
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