Omics feature selection with the extended SIS R package: identification of a body mass index epigenetic multimarker in the Strong Heart Study

[EN] The statistical analysis of omics data poses a great computational challenge given its ultra-high dimensional nature and frequent between-features correlation. In this work, we extended the Iterative Sure Independence Screening (ISIS) algorithm by pairing ISIS with elastic-net (Enet) and two ve...

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Autores: Domingo-Relloso, Arce, Feng, Yang, Rodríguez-Hernández, Zulema, Haack, Karin, Cole, Shelley A., Navas-Acien, Ana, Tellez-Plaza, Maria, Bermudez, Jose D.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/220571
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/220571
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:DNA methylation
Feature selection
Sure independence screening
Dimensionality reduction
Omics data
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Sumario:[EN] The statistical analysis of omics data poses a great computational challenge given its ultra-high dimensional nature and frequent between-features correlation. In this work, we extended the Iterative Sure Independence Screening (ISIS) algorithm by pairing ISIS with elastic-net (Enet) and two versions of adaptive Enet (AEnet and MSAEnet) to efficiently improve feature selection and effect estimation in omics research. We subsequently used genome-wide human blood DNA methylation data from American Indians of the Strong Heart Study (N=2,235 participants), measured in 1989-1991, to compare the performance (predictive accuracy, coefficient estimation and computational efficiency) of SIS-paired regularization methods to Bayesian shrinkage and traditional linear regression to identify epigenomic multi-marker of body mass index. ISIS-AEnet outperformed the other methods in prediction. In biological pathway enrichment analysis of genes annotated to BMI-related differentially methylated positions, ISIS-AEnet captured most of the enriched pathways in common for at least two of all the evaluated methods. ISIS-AEnet can favor biological discovery because it identifies the most robust biological pathways while achieving an optimal balance between bias and efficient feature selection. In the extended SIS R package, we also implemented ISIS paired with Cox and logistic regression for time-to-event and binary endpoints, respectively, and bootstrap confidence intervals for the estimated regression coefficients.