title: A generalized multivariate approach to pattern discovery from replicated and incomplete genome-wide measurements.
abstract: Estimation of pairwise correlation from incomplete and replicated molecular profiling data is an ubiquitous problem in pattern discovery analysis, such as clustering and networking. However, existing methods solve this problem by ad hoc data imputation, followed by aveGation coefficient type approaches, which might annihilate important patterns present in the molecular profiling data. Moreover, these approaches do not consider and exploit the underlying experimental design information that specifies the replication mechanisms. We develop an Expectation-Maximization (EM) type algorithm to estimate the correlation structure using incomplete and replicated molecular profiling data with a priori known replication mechanism. The approach is sufficiently generalized to be applicable to any known replication mechanism. In case of unknown replication mechanism, it is reduced to the parsimonious model introduced previously. The efficacy of our approach was first evaluated by comprehensively comparing various bivariate and multivariate imputation approaches using simulation studies. Results from real-world data analysis further confirmed the superior performance of the proposed approach to the commonly used approaches, where we assessed the robustness of the method using data sets with up to 30 percent missing values.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, LA, USA. dzhu@cs.uno.edu
authors.forename: Dongxiao
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Lipi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Acharya
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003198:Computer Simulation; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results