Prediction of comorbid diseases using weighted geometric embedding of human interactome

Author:

Akram Pakeeza,Liao LiORCID

Abstract

Abstract Background Comorbidity is the phenomenon of two or more diseases occurring simultaneously not by random chance and presents great challenges to accurate diagnosis and treatment. As an effort toward better understanding the genetic causes of comorbidity, in this work, we have developed a computational method to predict comorbid diseases. Two diseases sharing common genes tend to increase their comorbidity. Previous work shows that after mapping the associated genes onto the human interactome the distance between the two disease modules (subgraphs) is correlated with comorbidity. Methods To fully incorporate structural characteristics of interactome as features into prediction of comorbidity, our method embeds the human interactome into a high dimensional geometric space with weights assigned to the network edges and uses the projection onto different dimension to “fingerprint” disease modules. A supervised machine learning classifier is then trained to discriminate comorbid diseases versus non-comorbid diseases. Results In cross-validation using a benchmark dataset of more than 10,000 disease pairs, we report that our model achieves remarkable performance of ROC score = 0.90 for comorbidity threshold at relative risk RR = 0 and 0.76 for comorbidity threshold at RR = 1, and significantly outperforms the previous method and the interactome generated by annotated data. To further incorporate prior knowledge pathways association with diseases, we weight the protein-protein interaction network edges according to their frequency of occurring in those pathways in such a way that edges with higher frequency will more likely be selected in the minimum spanning tree for geometric embedding. Such weighted embedding is shown to lead to further improvement of comorbid disease prediction. Conclusion The work demonstrates that embedding the two-dimension planar graph of human interactome into a high dimensional geometric space allows for characterizing and capturing disease modules (subgraphs formed by the disease associated genes) from multiple perspectives, and hence provides enriched features for a supervised classifier to discriminate comorbid disease pairs from non-comorbid disease pairs more accurately than based on simply the module separation.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Genetics (clinical),Genetics

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