title: Convergent Random Forest predictor: methodology for predicting drug response from genome-scale data applied to anti-TNF response.
abstract: Biomarker development for prediction of patient response to therapy is one of the goals of molecular profiling of human tissues. Due to the large number of transcripts, relatively limited number of samples, and high variability of data, identification of predictive biomarkers is a challenge for data analysis. Furthermore, many genes may be responsible for drug response differences, but often only a few are sufficient for accurate prediction. Here we present an analysis approach, the Convergent Random Forest (CRF) method, for the identification of highly predictive biomarkers. The aim is to select from genome-wide expression data a small number of non-redundant biomarkers that could be developed into a simple and robust diagnostic tool. Our method combines the Random Forest classifier and gene expression clustering to rank and select a small number of predictive genes. We evaluated the CRF approach by analyzing four different data sets. The first set contains transcript profiles of whole blood from rheumatoid arthritis patients, collected before anti-TNF treatment, and their subsequent response to the therapy. In this set, CRF identified 8 transcripts predicting response to therapy with 89% accuracy. We also applied the CRF to the analysis of three previously published expression data sets. For all sets, we have compared the CRF and recursive support vector machines (RSVM) approaches to feature selection and classification. In all cases the CRF selects much smaller number of features, five to eight genes, while achieving similar or better performance on both training and independent testing sets of data. For both methods performance estimates using cross-validation is similar to performance on independent samples. The method has been implemented in R and is available from the authors upon request: Jadwiga.Bienkowska@biogenidec.com.
authors.affiliation: Biogen IDEC 14 Cambridge Ctr, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Jadwiga.Bienkowska@biogenidec.com
authors.forename: Jadwiga R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Bienkowska
authors.forename: Gul S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Dalgin
authors.forename: Franak
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Batliwalla
authors.forename: Normand
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Allaire
authors.forename: Ronenn
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roubenoff
authors.forename: Peter K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Gregersen
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Carulli
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000235:genetics; D000465:Algorithms; D018501:Antirheumatic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003663:Decision Trees; D018450:Disease Progression; D016903:Drug Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000235:genetics; D011379:Prognosis; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*
chemical_list: D018501:Antirheumatic Agents; D015415:Biomarkers; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
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