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Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics

Background:

  • Gene network information can aid disease module and pathway identification.
  • Standard random forest (RF) algorithms have not explicitly used gene network data for gene expression analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the performance of a network-guided RF algorithm.
  • Assess the utility of gene network information in RF for gene expression data analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a network-guided RF approach.
  • Summarized network information into sampling probabilities for predictor variables.
  • Applied the method to breast cancer datasets (microarray and RNA-Seq) for progesterone receptor (PR) status classification.

Main Results:

  • Network-guided RF did not outperform standard RF in disease prediction accuracy.
  • Network-guided RF more accurately identified disease gene modules when genes formed modules.
  • Spurious gene selection, particularly for hub genes, occurred when disease status was independent of the network.
  • Empirical analysis identified genes from PGR-related pathways, forming a better-connected module.

Conclusions:

  • Gene networks offer valuable information for disease module and pathway identification in gene expression analysis.
  • Caution and validation are necessary to prevent spurious gene selection when using network information.
  • Further research is needed for more robust methods to integrate network information into RF construction.