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GPBSO: Gene Pool-Based Brain Storm Optimization for SNP Epistasis Detection.

Liyan Sun¹, Yi Xin¹, Shen Qu²

¹School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, Changchun 130022, China.

|September 27, 2025

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GPBSO, a new method for detecting high-order gene interactions in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), significantly improves the identification of complex disease risk factors. It outperforms existing methods, especially for third-order interactions.

Keywords:

epistasis genome-wide association studies single-nucleotide polymorphism

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Area of Science:

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Computational Biology
Bioinformatics

Background:

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are crucial for understanding complex diseases.
Current methods often fail to detect high-order gene-gene interactions (epistasis), limiting disease insights.
Identifying epistatic interactions is key to unraveling disease complexity.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce GPBSO (Gene Pool-Based Brain Storm Optimization), a novel framework for detecting high-order epistatic interactions.
To develop an efficient method for exploring complex single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) combinations.
To advance the analysis of genetic factors in complex diseases.

Main Methods:

GPBSO integrates Brain Storm Optimization with a dynamic gene pool for efficient search.
Epistasis is evaluated using the k2 Bayesian network scoring criterion and the G-test.
Iterative updates to the gene matrix enhance search diversity and exploration.

Main Results:

GPBSO demonstrated superior performance compared to established methods (DECMDR, SNPHarvester, AntEpiSeeker, HS-MMGKG, SEE) on simulated datasets.
The method showed significant improvements in F-measure and statistical power, particularly for third-order interactions.
GPBSO effectively identified complex epistatic interactions across various simulated models.

Conclusions:

GPBSO offers an effective and scalable solution for detecting high-order epistatic interactions.
This framework provides methodological advancements for genetic epidemiology and complex disease analysis.
GPBSO enhances our ability to understand the genetic architecture of complex diseases.