Robust identification of temporal biomarkers in longitudinal omics studies.
Bioinformatics
; 38(15): 3802-3811, 2022 08 02.
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ABSTRACT
MOTIVATION Longitudinal studies increasingly collect rich 'omics' data sampled frequently over time and across large cohorts to capture dynamic health fluctuations and disease transitions. However, the generation of longitudinal omics data has preceded the development of analysis tools that can efficiently extract insights from such data. In particular, there is a need for statistical frameworks that can identify not only which omics features are differentially regulated between groups but also over what time intervals. Additionally, longitudinal omics data may have inconsistencies, including non-uniform sampling intervals, missing data points, subject dropout and differing numbers of samples per subject. RESULTS:
In this work, we developed OmicsLonDA, a statistical method that provides robust identification of time intervals of temporal omics biomarkers. OmicsLonDA is based on a semi-parametric approach, in which we use smoothing splines to model longitudinal data and infer significant time intervals of omics features based on an empirical distribution constructed through a permutation procedure. We benchmarked OmicsLonDA on five simulated datasets with diverse temporal patterns, and the method showed specificity greater than 0.99 and sensitivity greater than 0.87. Applying OmicsLonDA to the iPOP cohort revealed temporal patterns of genes, proteins, metabolites and microbes that are differentially regulated in male versus female subjects following a respiratory infection. In addition, we applied OmicsLonDA to a longitudinal multi-omics dataset of pregnant women with and without preeclampsia, and OmicsLonDA identified potential lipid markers that are temporally significantly different between the two groups. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION We provide an open-source R package (https//bioconductor.org/packages/OmicsLonDA), to enable widespread use. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
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Projetos de Pesquisa
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Proteínas
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Bioinformatics
Assunto da revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos