A SPARSE CONDITIONAL GAUSSIAN GRAPHICAL MODEL FOR ANALYSIS OF GENETICAL GENOMICS DATA

Genetical genomics experiments have now been routinely conducted to measure both the genetic markers and gene expression data on the same subjects. The gene expression levels are often treated as quantitative traits and are subject to standard genetic analysis in order to identify the gene expressio...

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Vydané v:The annals of applied statistics Ročník 5; číslo 4; s. 2630
Hlavní autori: Yin, Jianxin, Li, Hongzhe
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: United States 01.12.2011
ISSN:1932-6157
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Shrnutí:Genetical genomics experiments have now been routinely conducted to measure both the genetic markers and gene expression data on the same subjects. The gene expression levels are often treated as quantitative traits and are subject to standard genetic analysis in order to identify the gene expression quantitative loci (eQTL). However, the genetic architecture for many gene expressions may be complex, and poorly estimated genetic architecture may compromise the inferences of the dependency structures of the genes at the transcriptional level. In this paper, we introduce a sparse conditional Gaussian graphical model for studying the conditional independent relationships among a set of gene expressions adjusting for possible genetic effects where the gene expressions are modeled with seemingly unrelated regressions. We present an efficient coordinate descent algorithm to obtain the penalized estimation of both the regression coefficients and sparse concentration matrix. The corresponding graph can be used to determine the conditional independence among a group of genes while adjusting for shared genetic effects. Simulation experiments and asymptotic convergence rates and sparsistency are used to justify our proposed methods. By sparsistency, we mean the property that all parameters that are zero are actually estimated as zero with probability tending to one. We apply our methods to the analysis of a yeast eQTL data set and demonstrate that the conditional Gaussian graphical model leads to more interpretable gene network than standard Gaussian graphical model based on gene expression data alone.
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ISSN:1932-6157
DOI:10.1214/11-AOAS494