Prediction of tissue-specific cis-regulatory modules using Bayesian networks and regression trees
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Xiaoyu Chen1, Mathieu Blanchette
1McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, 3775 University Street, room 332, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4. xchen@cs.washington.edu
Background:
In vertebrates, a large part of gene transcriptional regulation is operated by cis-regulatory modules. These modules are believed to be regulating much of the tissue-specificity of gene expression.
Result:
We develop a Bayesian network approach for identifying cis-regulatory modules likely to regulate tissue-specific expression. The network integrates predicted transcription factor binding site information, transcription factor expression data, and target gene expression data. At its core is a regression tree modeling the effect of combinations of transcription factors bound to a module. A new unsupervised EM-like algorithm is developed to learn the parameters of the network, including the regression tree structure.
Conclusion:
Our approach is shown to accurately identify known human liver and erythroid-specific modules. When applied to the prediction of tissue-specific modules in 10 different tissues, the network predicts a number of important transcription factor combinations whose concerted binding is associated to specific expression.
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