標題: RRSM with a data-dependent threshold for miRNA target prediction
作者: Hsieh, Wan J.
Wang, Hsiuying
統計學研究所
Institute of Statistics
關鍵字: The relative R squared method;Correlation analysis;Regression model;p-value
公開日期: 21-十一月-2013
摘要: Predicting miRNA target genes is one of the important issues in bioinformatics. The correlation analysis is a widely used method for exploring miRNA targets through microarray data. However, the experimental results show that correlation analysis leads to large false positive or negative results. In addition, the correlation analysis is not appropriate when multiple miRNAs simultaneously regulate a gene. Recently, the relative R squared method (RRSM) has been proposed for miRNA target prediction, which is shown to be superior to some existing methods. To adopt the RRSM, we need first to set thresholds to select a proportion of potential targets. In the previous studies, the threshold is set to be fixed, which does not depend on the characteristic of a gene. Due to the diversity of the functions of genes, a data-dependent threshold may be more feasible in real data applications than a data-independent threshold. In this study, we propose a threshold selection method which is based on the distribution of the relative R squared statistic. The proposed method is shown to significantly improve the previous prediction results by selecting more experimentally validated targets. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.08.002
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/22928
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.08.002
期刊: JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
Volume: 337
Issue: 
起始頁: 54
結束頁: 60
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