title: MODMatcher: multi-omics data matcher for integrative genomic analysis.
abstract: Errors in sample annotation or labeling often occur in large-scale genetic or genomic studies and are difficult to avoid completely during data generation and management. For integrative genomic studies, it is critical to identify and correct these errors. Different types of genetic and genomic data are inter-connected by cis-regulations. On that basis, we developed a computational approach, Multi-Omics Data Matcher (MODMatcher), to identify and correct sample labeling errors in multiple types of molecular data, which can be used in further integrative analysis. Our results indicate that inspection of sample annotation and labeling error is an indispensable data quality assurance step. Applied to a large lung genomic study, MODMatcher increased statistically significant genetic associations and genomic correlations by more than two-fold. In a simulation study, MODMatcher provided more robust results by using three types of omics data than two types of omics data. We further demonstrate that MODMatcher can be broadly applied to large genomic data sets containing multiple types of omics data, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data sets.
authors.affiliation: Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Seungyeul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.affiliation: Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Division of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Joshua D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.affiliation: Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Eunjee
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Zhidong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.
authors.forename: Mark W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Geraci
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Charles A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Powell
authors.affiliation: Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Eric E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Schadt
authors.affiliation: Division of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Avrum
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spira
authors.affiliation: Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D019175:DNA Methylation; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation / Q000379:methods*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA