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ABSTRACT: Motivation
Large datasets containing multiple clinical and omics measurements for each subject motivate the development of new statistical methods to integrate these data to advance scientific discovery.Model
We propose bootstrap evaluation of association matrices (BEAM), which integrates multiple omics profiles with multiple clinical endpoints. BEAM associates a set omic features with clinical endpoints via regression models and then uses bootstrap resampling to determine statistical significance of the set. Unlike existing methods, BEAM uniquely accommodates an arbitrary number of omic profiles and endpoints.Results
In simulations, BEAM performed similarly to the theoretically best simple test and outperformed other integrated analysis methods. In an example pediatric leukemia application, BEAM identified several genes with biological relevance established by a CRISPR assay that had been missed by univariate screens and other integrated analysis methods. Thus, BEAM is a powerful, flexible, and robust tool to identify genes for further laboratory and/or clinical research evaluation.Availability
Source code, documentation, and a vignette for BEAM are available on GitHub at: https://github.com/annaSeffernick/BEAMR. The R package is available from CRAN at: https://cran.r-project.org/package=BEAMR.Contact
Stanley.Pounds@stjude.org.Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at the journal's website.
SUBMITTER: Seffernick AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11312528 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seffernick Anna Eames AE Cao Xueyuan X Cheng Cheng C Yang Wenjian W Autry Robert J RJ Yang Jun J JJ Pui Ching-Hon CH Teachey David T DT Lamba Jatinder K JK Mullighan Charles G CG Pounds Stanley B SB
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 20240803
<h4>Motivation</h4>Large datasets containing multiple clinical and omics measurements for each subject motivate the development of new statistical methods to integrate these data to advance scientific discovery.<h4>Model</h4>We propose bootstrap evaluation of association matrices (BEAM), which integrates multiple omics profiles with multiple clinical endpoints. BEAM associates a set omic features with clinical endpoints via regression models and then uses bootstrap resampling to determine statis ...[more]