title: AMBIENCE: a novel approach and efficient algorithm for identifying informative genetic and environmental associations with complex phenotypes.
abstract: We developed a computationally efficient algorithm AMBIENCE, for identifying the informative variables involved in gene-gene (GGI) and gene-environment interactions (GEI) that are associated with disease phenotypes. The AMBIENCE algorithm uses a novel information theoretic metric called phenotype-associated information (PAI) to search for combinations of genetic variants and environmental variables associated with the disease phenotype. The PAI-based AMBIENCE algorithm effectively and efficiently detected GEI in simulated data sets of varying size and complexity, including the 10K simulated rheumatoid arthritis data set from Genetic Analysis Workshop 15. The method was also successfully used to detect GGI in a Crohn's disease data set. The performance of the AMBIENCE algorithm was compared to the multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR), generalized MDR (GMDR), and pedigree disequilibrium test (PDT) methods. Furthermore, we assessed the computational speed of AMBIENCE for detecting GGI and GEI for data sets varying in size from 100 to 10(5) variables. Our results demonstrate that the AMBIENCE information theoretic algorithm is useful for analyzing a diverse range of epidemiologic data sets containing evidence for GGI and GEI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA.
authors.forename: Pritam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chanda
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sucheston
authors.forename: Aidong
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brazeau
authors.forename: Jo L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Freudenheim
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ambrosone
authors.forename: Murali
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ramanathan
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002895:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5 / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004777:Environment; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010375:Pedigree; D010641:Phenotype
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