Identification of type 2 diabetes-associated combination of SNPs using support vector machine.
BACKGROUND
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), a metabolic disorder characterized by insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency, is a complex disease of major public health importance. Its incidence is rapidly increasing in the developed countries. Complex diseases are caused by interactions between multiple genes and environmental factors. Most association studies aim to identify individual susceptibility single markers using a simple disease model. Recent studies are trying to estimate the effects of multiple genes and multi-locus in genome-wide association. However, estimating the effects of association is very difficult. We aim to assess the rules for classifying diseased and normal subjects by evaluating potential gene-gene interactions in the same or distinct biological pathways.


RESULTS
We analyzed the importance of gene-gene interactions in T2D susceptibility by investigating 408 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 87 genes involved in major T2D-related pathways in 462 T2D patients and 456 healthy controls from the Korean cohort studies. We evaluated the support vector machine (SVM) method to differentiate between cases and controls using SNP information in a 10-fold cross-validation test. We achieved a 65.3% prediction rate with a combination of 14 SNPs in 12 genes by using the radial basis function (RBF)-kernel SVM. Similarly, we investigated subpopulation data sets of men and women and identified different SNP combinations with the prediction rates of 70.9% and 70.6%, respectively. As the high-throughput technology for genome-wide SNPs improves, it is likely that a much higher prediction rate with biologically more interesting combination of SNPs can be acquired by using this method.


CONCLUSIONS
Support Vector Machine based feature selection method in this research found novel association between combinations of SNPs and T2D in a Korean population.
Ban
Hyo-Jeong
HJ
Division of Bio-Medical Informatics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 194, Tongil-Lo, Eunpyung-Gu, Seoul 122-701, Republic of Korea.
Heo
Jee Yeon
JY
Oh
Kyung-Soo
KS
Park
Keun-Joon
KJ
D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000235:genetics*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide