Author:
Chowdhury Shrabanti,Wang Ru,Yu Qing,Huntoon Catherine J.,Karnitz Larry M.,Kaufmann Scott H.,Gygi Steven P.,Birrer Michael J.,Paulovich Amanda G.,Peng Jie,Wang Pei
Abstract
AbstractMotivationDirected gene/protein regulatory networks inferred by applying directed acyclic graph (DAG) models to proteogenomic data has been shown effective for detecting causal biomarkers of clinical outcomes. However, there remain unsolved challenges in DAG learning to jointly model clinical outcome variables, which often take binary values, and biomarker measurements, which usually are continuous variables. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new tool, DAGBagM, to learn DAGs with both continuous and binary nodes. By using appropriate models for continuous and binary variables, DAGBagM allows for either type of nodes to be parents or children nodes in the learned graph. DAGBagM also employs a bootstrap aggregating strategy to reduce false positives and achieve better estimation accuracy. Moreover, the aggregation procedure provides a flexible framework to robustly incorporate prior information on edges for DAG reconstruction.ResultsAs shown by simulation studies, DAGBagM performs better in identifying edges between continuous and binary nodes, as compared to commonly used strategies of either treating binary variables as continuous or discretizing continuous variables. Moreover, DAGBagM outperforms several popular DAG structure learning algorithms including the score-based hill climbing (HC) algorithm, constraint-based PC-algorithm (PC-alg), and the hybrid method max-min hill climbing (MMHC) even for constructing DAG with only continuous nodes. The HC implementation in the R package DAGBagM is much faster than that in a widely used DAG learning R package bnlearn. When applying DAGBagM to proteomics datasets from ovarian cancer studies, we identify potential prognostic protein biomarkers in ovarian cancer.Availability and implementationDAGBagMis made available as a github repositoryhttps://github.com/jie108/dagbagM.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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