title: Gene selection and cancer type classification of diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma using a bivariate mixture model for two-species data.
abstract: : A bivariate mixture model utilizing information across two species was proposed to solve the fundamental problem of identifying differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments. The model utility was illustrated using a dog and human lymphoma data set prepared by a group of scientists in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. A small number of genes were identified as being differentially expressed in both species and the human genes in this cluster serve as a good predictor for classifying diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients into two subgroups, the germinal center B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and the activated B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. The number of human genes that were observed to be significantly differentially expressed (21) from the two-species analysis was very small compared to the number of human genes (190) identified with only one-species analysis (human data). The genes may be clinically relevant/important, as this small set achieved low misclassification rates of DLBCL subtypes. Additionally, the two subgroups defined by this cluster of human genes had significantly different survival functions, indicating that the stratification based on gene-expression profiling using the proposed mixture model provided improved insight into the clinical differences between the two cancer subtypes.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Su's Statistics, Department of Human Nutrition, Food, and Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. yhsejo@gmail.com
authors.forename: Yuhua
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Dahlia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Kristy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suter
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Breen
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Motsinger-Reif
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Osborne
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D000818:Animals; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis* / Q000235:genetics; D004285:Dogs / Q000235:genetics*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D052138:Genes, Neoplasm; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D016014:Linear Models; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008957:Models, Genetic; D005810:Multigene Family; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D011379:Prognosis; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor