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InfDisSim: A novel method for measuring disease similarity based on information flow

  • Yang Hu
  • , Meng Zhou
  • , Hongbo Shi
  • , Hong Ju
  • , Qinghua Jiang*
  • , Liang Cheng
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Harbin Medical University
  • Career Academy

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Abstract

Similar diseases are often caused by their similar molecular origins, such as disease-related protein-coding genes (PCGs). And nowadays, the function of PCGs has been widely studied on a gene function network, where each node represents a gene and each edge indicates an interaction between pair-wise genes. Therefore, functional interaction between disease-related PCGs should be exploited to measure disease similarity. Actually, functional interaction of pair-wise PCGs has been introduced to calculate disease similarity recently. However, existing method ignores that genes could also be associated based on intermediate nodes in the gene functional network. Here, in this article, we proposed a novel method, InfDisSim, to infer disease similarity. InfDisSim models the information flow to the network based on random walk with damping, in which the entire network could be fully utilized. The performance of InfDisSim was evaluated by a benchmark set of similar disease pairs. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) was calculated to evaluate the performance. As a result, InfDisSim achieves a very high AUC (0.9786), which shows it performs well. Furthermore, based on the disease similarity computed by the infDisSim, we re-validated that similar diseases tend to have common therapeutic drugs (Pearson correlation γ2=0.1315, p=2.2e-16). Finally, InfDisSim disease similarity was exploited to construct a lncRNA similarity network (LSN), which was further applied to predict potential associations between diseases and lncRNAs. High AUC (0.9893) based on leave-one-out cross validation shows the LSN is very suitable for identifying novel disease-related lncRNAs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2016
EditorsKevin Burrage, Qian Zhu, Yunlong Liu, Tianhai Tian, Yadong Wang, Xiaohua Tony Hu, Qinghua Jiang, Jiangning Song, Shinichi Morishita, Kevin Burrage, Guohua Wang
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages20-26
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781509016105
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2016 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 15 Dec 201618 Dec 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2016

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period15/12/1618/12/16

Keywords

  • Disease similarity
  • Information flow
  • LncRNA similarity network
  • Semantic association

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