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Edited by
Kim-Anh Do, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center,Peter Müller, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich,Marina Vannucci, Rice University, Houston
DNA microarray technology enables us to monitor the expression levels of thousands of genes simultaneously, and hence helps to obtain a better picture of the interactions between the genes. In order to understand the biological structure underlying these gene interactions, we present here a statistical approach to model the functional relationship between genes and also between genes and disease status. We suggest a hierarchical Bayesian model based on multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) to model these complex nonlinear interaction functions. The novelty of the approach lies in the fact that we attempt to capture the complex nonlinear dependencies between the genes which otherwise would have been missed by linear approaches. Owing to the large number of genes (variables) and the complexity of the data, we use Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) based stochastic search algorithms to choose among models. The Bayesian model is flexible enough to identify significant genes as well as model the functional relationships between them. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is illustrated using two publicly available microarray data sets: leukemia and hereditary breast cancer.
Introduction
DNA microarray technology has revolutionized biological and medical research. The use of DNA microarrays allows simultaneous monitoring of the expressions of thousands of genes (Schena et al. 1995; Duggan et al. 1999), and has emerged as a tool for disease diagnosis. This technology promises to monitor the whole genome on a single chip so that researchers can have a better picture of the interactions among thousands of genes simultaneously.
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