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A computationally efficient hypothesis testing method for epistasis analysis using multifactor dimensionality reduction.

Abstract：

:Multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) was developed as a nonparametric and model-free data mining method for detecting, characterizing, and interpreting epistasis in the absence of significant main effects in genetic and epidemiologic studies of complex traits such as disease susceptibility. The goal of MDR is to change the representation of the data using a constructive induction algorithm to make nonadditive interactions easier to detect using any classification method such as naïve Bayes or logistic regression. Traditionally, MDR constructed variables have been evaluated with a naïve Bayes classifier that is combined with 10-fold cross validation to obtain an estimate of predictive accuracy or generalizability of epistasis models. Traditionally, we have used permutation testing to statistically evaluate the significance of models obtained through MDR. The advantage of permutation testing is that it controls for false positives due to multiple testing. The disadvantage is that permutation testing is computationally expensive. This is an important issue that arises in the context of detecting epistasis on a genome-wide scale. The goal of the present study was to develop and evaluate several alternatives to large-scale permutation testing for assessing the statistical significance of MDR models. Using data simulated from 70 different epistasis models, we compared the power and type I error rate of MDR using a 1,000-fold permutation test with hypothesis testing using an extreme value distribution (EVD). We find that this new hypothesis testing method provides a reasonable alternative to the computationally expensive 1,000-fold permutation test and is 50 times faster. We then demonstrate this new method by applying it to a genetic epidemiology study of bladder cancer susceptibility that was previously analyzed using MDR and assessed using a 1,000-fold permutation test.

journal_name

Genet Epidemiol

journal_title

Genetic epidemiology

authors

Pattin KA,White BC,Barney N,Gui J,Nelson HH,Kelsey KT,Andrew AS,Karagas MR,Moore JH

doi

10.1002/gepi.20360

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-01-01 00:00:00

pages

87-94

issue

eissn

0741-0395

issn

1098-2272

journal_volume

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A computationally efficient hypothesis testing method for epistasis analysis using multifactor dimensionality reduction.