Modeling, simulation and analysis of methylation profiles from reduced representation bisulfite sequencing experiments.

abstract：:In a hidden Markov model, one "estimates" the state of the hidden Markov chain at t by computing via the forwards-backwards algorithm the conditional distribution of the state vector given the observed data. The covariance matrix of this conditional distribution measures the information lost by failure to observe dire...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Siegmund DO,Yakir B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of finding periodically expressed genes from time course microarray experiments is at the center of numerous efforts to identify the molecular components of biological clocks. We present a new approach to this problem based on the cyclohedron test, which is a rank test inspired by recent advances in algebr...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Morton J,Pachter L,Shiu A,Sturmfels B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, alignment-free methods have been widely applied in comparing genome sequences, as these methods compute efficiently and provide desirable phylogenetic analysis results. These methods have been successfully combined with hierarchical clustering methods for finding phylogenetic trees. However, it may no...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Huang HH,Girimurugan SB

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple branching trees have been used to model the acquisition of HIV drug resistance mutations, and several different algorithms have been developed to construct the tree set that best describes the data. These algorithms have mainly focused on the structure of the tree set. The focal point of this paper is estimat...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Healy BC,DeGruttola VG,Hu C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are concerned with statistical inference for 2 × C × K contingency tables in the context of genetic case-control association studies. Multivariate methods based on asymptotic Gaussianity of vectors of test statistics require information about the asymptotic correlation structure among these test statistics under th...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Dickhaus T,Stange J,Demirhan H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important application of gene expression microarray data is classification of biological samples or prediction of clinical and other outcomes. One necessary part of multivariate statistical analysis in such applications is dimension reduction. This paper provides a comparison study of three dimension reduction tech...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Dai JJ,Lieu L,Rocke D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Locus heterogeneity is one of the most important issues in gene mapping and can cause significant reductions in statistical power for gene mapping, yet no research to date has provided power and sample size calculations for family-based association methods in the presence of locus heterogeneity. The purpose of this re...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Chen C,Yang G,Buyske S,Matise T,Finch SJ,Gordon D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Likelihood-based cross-validation is a statistical tool for selecting a density estimate based on n i.i.d. observations from the true density among a collection of candidate density estimators. General examples are the selection of a model indexing a maximum likelihood estimator, and the selection of a bandwidth index...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： van der Laan MJ,Dudoit S,Keles S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrative analysis of copy number and gene expression data can help in understanding the cis and trans effect of copy number aberrations on transcription levels of genes involved in a pathway. To analyse how these copy number mediated gene-gene interactions differ between groups of samples we propose a new method, n...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Chaturvedi N,Menezes RX,Goeman JJ,Wieringen WV

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Gametic models for fitting breeding values at QTL as random effects in outbred populations have become popular because they require few assumptions about the number and distribution of QTL alleles segregating. The covariance matrix of the gametic effects has an inverse that is sparse and can be constructed rapidly by ...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Thallman RM,Hanford KJ,Kachman SD,Van Vleck LD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dirichlet Process (DP) mixture model has become a popular choice for model-based clustering, largely because it allows the number of clusters to be inferred. The sequential updating and greedy search (SUGS) algorithm (Wang & Dunson, 2011) was proposed as a fast method for performing approximate Bayesian inference ...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Crook OM,Gatto L,Kirk PDW

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a weighted-LASSO method to infer the parameters of a first-order vector auto-regressive model that describes time course expression data generated by directed gene-to-gene regulation networks. These networks are assumed to own prior internal structures of connectivity which drive the inference method. This ...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Charbonnier C,Chiquet J,Ambroise C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present paper is to develop a truly functional Bayesian method specifically designed for time series microarray data. The method allows one to identify differentially expressed genes in a time-course microarray experiment, to rank them and to estimate their expression profiles. Each gene expressio...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Angelini C,De Canditiis D,Mutarelli M,Pensky M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approaches based upon sequence weights, to construct a position weight matrix of nucleotides from aligned inputs, are popular but little effort has been expended to measure their quality. We derive optimal sequence weights that minimize the sum of the variances of the estimators of base frequency parameters for sequen...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Newberg LA,McCue LA,Lawrence CE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal genomics data and survival outcome are common in biomedical studies, where the genomics data are often of high dimension. It is of great interest to select informative longitudinal biomarkers (e.g. genes) related to the survival outcome. In this paper, we develop a computationally efficient tool, LCox, fo...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Sun J,Herazo-Maya JD,Wang JL,Kaminski N,Zhao H

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput sequencing techniques are increasingly affordable and produce massive amounts of data. Together with other high-throughput technologies, such as microarrays, there are an enormous amount of resources in databases. The collection of these valuable data has been routine for more than a decade. Despite di...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Schimek MG,Budinská E,Kugler KG,Švendová V,Ding J,Lin S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several important syndromes are caused by deleterious germline mutations of individual genes. In both clinical and research applications it is useful to evaluate the probability that an individual carries an inherited genetic variant of these genes, and to predict the risk of disease for that individual, using informa...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Chen S,Wang W,Broman KW,Katki HA,Parmigiani G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we propose a novel statistical framework for detecting progressive changes in molecular traits as response to a pathogenic stimulus. In particular, we propose to employ Bayesian hierarchical models to analyse changes in mean level, variance and correlation of metabolic traits in relation to covariates. ...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Salamanca BV,Ebbels TM,Iorio MD

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the exploding field of gene expression techniques such as DNA microarrays, there are still few general probabilistic methods for analysis of variance. Linear models and ANOVA are heavily used tools in many other disciplines of scientific research. The usual F-statistic is unsatisfactory for microarray data, which e...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lönnstedt I,Rimini R,Nilsson P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a Bayesian hierarchical model for detecting differentially expressed genes using a mixture prior on the parameters representing differential effects. We formulate an easily interpretable 3-component mixture to classify genes as over-expressed, under-expressed and non-differentially expressed, and model gene...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lewin A,Bochkina N,Richardson S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately measuring epigenetic marks such as 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) at the single-nucleotide level, requires combining data from DNA processing methods including traditional (BS), oxidative (oxBS) or Tet-Assisted (TAB) bisulfite conversion. We introduce the R package MLML2R, which...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Kiihl SF,Martinez-Garrido MJ,Domingo-Relloso A,Bermudez J,Tellez-Plaza M

更新日期：2019-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In cellular biology, node-and-edge graph or "network" data collection often uses bait-prey technologies such as co-immunoprecipitation (CoIP). Bait-prey technologies assay relationships or "interactions" between protein pairs, with CoIP specifically measuring protein complex co-membership. Analyses of CoIP data freque...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Scholtens DM,Spencer BD

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many gene- and pathway-based association tests have been proposed in the literature. Among them, the SKAT is widely used, especially for rare variants association studies. In this paper, we investigate the connection between SKAT and a principal component analysis. This investigation leads to a procedure that encompas...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Chen Z,Han S,Wang K

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Polytomous phenotypes arise when a disease has multiple subtypes or when two dichotomous phenotypes are analyzed simultaneously. Few software programs offer the option to analyze such phenotypes in family studies, and none implements conditional polytomous logistic regression for within-family analysis robust to popul...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Bureau A,Croteau J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analytic and technological breakthroughs have set the stage for genome-wide linkage disequilibrium studies to map disease-susceptibility variants. This paper discusses a probabilistic methodology for making disease-mapping inferences in large-scale case-control genetic studies. The semi-Bayesian approach promot...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Schrodi SJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unraveling interactions among variables such as genetic, clinical, demographic and environmental factors is essential to understand the development of common and complex diseases. To increase the power to detect such variables interactions associated with clinical time-to-events outcomes, we borrowed established conce...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Dazard JE,Ishwaran H,Mehlotra R,Weinberg A,Zimmerman P

更新日期：2018-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been increasing interest in predicting patients' survival after therapy by investigating gene expression microarray data. In the regression and classification models with high-dimensional genomic data, boosting has been successfully applied to build accurate predictive models and conduct variable selection s...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Wang Z,Wang CY

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an approach to association studies involving a dozen or so ;response' variables and a few hundred ;explanatory' variables which emphasizes transparency, simplicity, and protection against spurious results. The methods proposed are largely non-parametric, and they are systematically rounded-off by the Benjam...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Ferreira JA,Berkhof J,Souverein O,Zwinderman K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usually, a pedigree is sampled and included in the sample that is analyzed after following a predefined non-random sampling design comprising several specific procedures. To obtain a pedigree analysis result free from the bias caused by the sampling procedures, a correction is applied to the pedigree likelihood. The s...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Ginsburg E,Malkin I,Elston RC

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Making sound proteomic inferences using ELISA microarray assay requires both an accurate prediction of protein concentration and a credible estimate of its error. We present a method using monotonic spline statistical models (MS), penalized constrained least squares fitting (PCLS) and Monte Carlo simulation (MC) to pr...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Daly DS,Anderson KK,White AM,Gonzalez RM,Varnum SM,Zangar RC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00