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Dai B, Breheny P. Cross-validation approaches for penalized Cox regression. Stat Methods Med Res 2024; 33:702-715. [PMID: 38445300 DOI: 10.1177/09622802241233770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
Abstract
Cross-validation is the most common way of selecting tuning parameters in penalized regression, but its use in penalized Cox regression models has received relatively little attention in the literature. Due to its partial likelihood construction, carrying out cross-validation for Cox models is not straightforward, and there are several potential approaches for implementation. Here, we propose a new approach based on cross-validating the linear predictors of the Cox model and compare it to approaches that have been proposed elsewhere. We show that the proposed approach offers an attractive balance of performance and numerical stability, and illustrate these advantages using simulated data as well as analyzing a high-dimensional study of gene expression and survival in lung cancer patients.
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- Biyue Dai
- Division of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa Iowa City, IA, USA
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Monterrubio-Gómez K, Constantine-Cooke N, Vallejos CA. A review on statistical and machine learning competing risks methods. Biom J 2024; 66:e2300060. [PMID: 38351217 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.202300060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/15/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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When modeling competing risks (CR) survival data, several techniques have been proposed in both the statistical and machine learning literature. State-of-the-art methods have extended classical approaches with more flexible assumptions that can improve predictive performance, allow high-dimensional data and missing values, among others. Despite this, modern approaches have not been widely employed in applied settings. This article aims to aid the uptake of such methods by providing a condensed compendium of CR survival methods with a unified notation and interpretation across approaches. We highlight available software and, when possible, demonstrate their usage via reproducible R vignettes. Moreover, we discuss two major concerns that can affect benchmark studies in this context: the choice of performance metrics and reproducibility.
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
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Pascual J, Gil-Gil M, Proszek P, Zielinski C, Reay A, Ruiz-Borrego M, Cutts R, Ciruelos Gil EM, Feber A, Muñoz-Mateu M, Swift C, Bermejo B, Herranz J, Margeli Vila M, Antón A, Kahan Z, Csöszi T, Liu Y, Fernandez-Garcia D, Garcia-Murillas I, Hubank M, Turner NC, Martín M. Baseline Mutations and ctDNA Dynamics as Prognostic and Predictive Factors in ER-Positive/HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients. Clin Cancer Res 2023; 29:4166-4177. [PMID: 37490393 PMCID: PMC10570672 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-23-0956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Revised: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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PURPOSE Prognostic and predictive biomarkers to cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 inhibitors are lacking. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) can be used to profile these patients and dynamic changes in ctDNA could be an early predictor of treatment efficacy. Here, we conducted plasma ctDNA profiling in patients from the PEARL trial comparing palbociclib+fulvestrant versus capecitabine to investigate associations between baseline genomic landscape and on-treatment ctDNA dynamics with treatment efficacy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Correlative blood samples were collected at baseline [cycle 1-day 1 (C1D1)] and prior to treatment [cycle 1-day 15 (C1D15)]. Plasma ctDNA was sequenced with a custom error-corrected capture panel, with both univariate and multivariate Cox models used for treatment efficacy associations. A prespecified methodology measuring ctDNA changes in clonal mutations between C1D1 and C1D15 was used for the on-treatment ctDNA dynamic model. RESULTS 201 patients were profiled at baseline, with ctDNA detection associated with worse progression-free survival (PFS)/overall survival (OS). Detectable TP53 mutation showed worse PFS and OS in both treatment arms, even after restricting population to baseline ctDNA detection. ESR1 mutations were associated with worse OS overall, which was lost when restricting population to baseline ctDNA detection. PIK3CA mutations confer worse OS only to patients on the palbociclib+fulvestrant treatment arm. ctDNA dynamics analysis (n = 120) showed higher ctDNA suppression in the capecitabine arm. Patients without ctDNA suppression showed worse PFS in both treatment arms. CONCLUSIONS We show impaired survival irrespective of endocrine or chemotherapy-based treatments for patients with hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer harboring plasma TP53 mutations. Early ctDNA suppression may provide treatment efficacy predictions. Further validation to fully demonstrate clinical utility of ctDNA dynamics is warranted.
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- Javier Pascual
- Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- Breast Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Medical Oncology Intercenter Unit, Regional and Virgen de la Victoria University Hospitals, IBIMA, Málaga, Spain
- GEICAM Spanish Breast Cancer Group, Madrid, Spain
- Oncology Biomedical Research National Network (CIBERONC-ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- GEICAM Spanish Breast Cancer Group, Madrid, Spain
- Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO), Barcelona, Spain
- IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain
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- Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- Breast Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Oncology, Central European Cancer Center, Wiener Privatklinik Hospital, Vienna, Austria
- CECOG Central European Cooperative Oncology Group, Vienna, Austria
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- Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- Breast Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- GEICAM Spanish Breast Cancer Group, Madrid, Spain
- Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain
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- Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- GEICAM Spanish Breast Cancer Group, Madrid, Spain
- Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
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- Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- Breast Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- GEICAM Spanish Breast Cancer Group, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Medical Oncology and Translational Genomics and Targeted Therapies in Solid Tumors, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Ralph Lauren Centre for Breast Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- GEICAM Spanish Breast Cancer Group, Madrid, Spain
- Oncology Biomedical Research National Network (CIBERONC-ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
- Medical Oncology, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Biomedical Research Institute INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain
- Medicine Department, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- GEICAM Spanish Breast Cancer Group, Madrid, Spain
- B-ARGO Group, Catalan Institute of Oncology-Badalona, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain
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- GEICAM Spanish Breast Cancer Group, Madrid, Spain
- Oncology Biomedical Research National Network (CIBERONC-ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
- Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Medicine Department, Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain
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- CECOG Central European Cooperative Oncology Group, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Oncotherapy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- CECOG Central European Cooperative Oncology Group, Vienna, Austria
- Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Hetényi Géza Kórház-Rendelőintézet, Szolnok, Hungary
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- Pfizer, La Jolla, San Diego, California
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- Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- Breast Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- Breast Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Ralph Lauren Centre for Breast Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- GEICAM Spanish Breast Cancer Group, Madrid, Spain
- Oncology Biomedical Research National Network (CIBERONC-ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
- Medical Oncology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Medicine Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Tran L, He K, Wang D, Jiang H. A cross-validation statistical framework for asymmetric data integration. Biometrics 2023; 79:1280-1292. [PMID: 35524490 PMCID: PMC9637892 DOI: 10.1111/biom.13685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The proliferation of biobanks and large public clinical data sets enables their integration with a smaller amount of locally gathered data for the purposes of parameter estimation and model prediction. However, public data sets may be subject to context-dependent confounders and the protocols behind their generation are often opaque; naively integrating all external data sets equally can bias estimates and lead to spurious conclusions. Weighted data integration is a potential solution, but current methods still require subjective specifications of weights and can become computationally intractable. Under the assumption that local data are generated from the set of unknown true parameters, we propose a novel weighted integration method based upon using the external data to minimize the local data leave-one-out cross validation (LOOCV) error. We demonstrate how the optimization of LOOCV errors for linear and Cox proportional hazards models can be rewritten as functions of external data set integration weights. Significant reductions in estimation error and prediction error are shown using simulation studies mimicking the heterogeneity of clinical data as well as a real-world example using kidney transplant patients from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.
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- Lam Tran
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
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Belhechmi S, Le Teuff G, De Bin R, Rotolo F, Michiels S. Favoring the hierarchical constraint in penalized survival models for randomized trials in precision medicine. BMC Bioinformatics 2023; 24:96. [PMID: 36927444 PMCID: PMC10022294 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-023-05162-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The research of biomarker-treatment interactions is commonly investigated in randomized clinical trials (RCT) for improving medicine precision. The hierarchical interaction constraint states that an interaction should only be in a model if its main effects are also in the model. However, this constraint is not guaranteed in the standard penalized statistical approaches. We aimed to find a compromise for high-dimensional data between the need for sparse model selection and the need for the hierarchical constraint. RESULTS To favor the property of the hierarchical interaction constraint, we proposed to create groups composed of the biomarker main effect and its interaction with treatment and to perform the bi-level selection on these groups. We proposed two weighting approaches (Single Wald (SW) and likelihood ratio test (LRT)) for the adaptive lasso method. The selection performance of these two approaches is compared to alternative lasso extensions (adaptive lasso with ridge-based weights, composite Minimax Concave Penalty, group exponential lasso and Sparse Group Lasso) through a simulation study. A RCT (NSABP B-31) randomizing 1574 patients (431 events) with early breast cancer aiming to evaluate the effect of adjuvant trastuzumab on distant-recurrence free survival with expression data from 462 genes measured in the tumour will serve for illustration. The simulation study illustrates that the adaptive lasso LRT and SW, and the group exponential lasso favored the hierarchical interaction constraint. Overall, in the alternative scenarios, they had the best balance of false discovery and false negative rates for the main effects of the selected interactions. For NSABP B-31, 12 gene-treatment interactions were identified more than 20% by the different methods. Among them, the adaptive lasso (SW) approach offered the best trade-off between a high number of selected gene-treatment interactions and a high proportion of selection of both the gene-treatment interaction and its main effect. CONCLUSIONS Adaptive lasso with Single Wald and likelihood ratio test weighting and the group exponential lasso approaches outperformed their competitors in favoring the hierarchical constraint of the biomarker-treatment interaction. However, the performance of the methods tends to decrease in the presence of prognostic biomarkers.
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- Shaima Belhechmi
- Université Paris-Saclay, CESP, INSERM U1018 Oncostat, labeled Ligue Contre le Cancer, Villejuif, France.,Bureau de Biostatistique et d'Epidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CESP, INSERM U1018 Oncostat, labeled Ligue Contre le Cancer, Villejuif, France.,Bureau de Biostatistique et d'Epidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Biostatistics and Data Management Unit, Innate Pharma, Marseille, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CESP, INSERM U1018 Oncostat, labeled Ligue Contre le Cancer, Villejuif, France. .,Bureau de Biostatistique et d'Epidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
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Mori S, Takahara M, Nakama T, Tobita K, Hayakawa N, Iwata Y, Horie K, Suzuki K, Yamawaki M, Ito Y. Impact of calcification on clinical outcomes after drug-coated balloon angioplasty for superficial femoral artery disease: Assessment using the peripheral artery calcification scoring system. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2023; 101:892-899. [PMID: 36883957 DOI: 10.1002/ccd.30622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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PURPOSE To investigate whether the severity of calcification assessed by the peripheral artery calcification scoring system (PACSS) was associated with clinical outcomes of drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty for femoropopliteal lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 733 limbs with intermittent claudication of 626 patients, who underwent DCB angioplasty for de novo femoropopliteal lesions between January 2017 and February 2021 at seven cardiovascular centers in Japan. The patients were categorized using the PACSS classification (grades 0-4: no visible calcification of the target lesion, unilateral wall calcification < 5 cm, unilateral calcification ≥ 5 cm, bilateral wall calcification < 5 cm, and bilateral calcification ≥ 5 cm, respectively). The main outcome was primary patency at 1 year. The Cox proportional hazards analysis was used to explore whether the PACSS classification was an independent predictor of clinical outcomes. RESULTS The distribution of PACSS was grade 0 in 38%, grade 1 in 17%, grade 2 in 7%, grade 3 in 16%, and grade 4 in 23%. The 1-year primary patency rates in these grades, respectively, were 88.2%, 89.3%, 71.9%, 96.5%, and 82.6%, respectively (p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis disclosed that PACSS grade 4 (hazard ratio: 1.82, 95% confidence interval 1.15-2.87, p = 0.010) was associated with restenosis. CONCLUSION The PACSS grade 4 calcification was independently associated with poor clinical outcomes after DCB angioplasty for de novo femoropopliteal lesions.
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- Shinsuke Mori
- Department of Cardiology, Saiseikai Yokohama City Eastern Hospital, Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Diabetes Care Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Bay Medical Center, Kishiwada, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kishiwada, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Asahi General Hospital, Asahi, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Funabashi Municipal Medical Center, Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sendai Kousei Hospital, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Saiseikai Central Hospital, Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Saiseikai Yokohama City Eastern Hospital, Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Saiseikai Yokohama City Eastern Hospital, Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan
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Candès E, Lei L, Ren Z. Conformalized survival analysis. J R Stat Soc Series B Stat Methodol 2023. [DOI: 10.1093/jrsssb/qkac004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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In this paper, we develop an inferential method based on conformal prediction, which can wrap around any survival prediction algorithm to produce calibrated, covariate-dependent lower predictive bounds on survival times. In the Type I right-censoring setting, when the censoring times are completely exogenous, the lower predictive bounds have guaranteed coverage in finite samples without any assumptions other than that of operating on independent and identically distributed data points. Under a more general conditionally independent censoring assumption, the bounds satisfy a doubly robust property which states the following: marginal coverage is approximately guaranteed if either the censoring mechanism or the conditional survival function is estimated well. The validity and efficiency of our procedure are demonstrated on synthetic data and real COVID-19 data from the UK Biobank.
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- Emmanuel Candès
- Department of Mathematics, Stanford University , Stanford, CA , USA
- Department of Statistics, Stanford University , Stanford, CA , USA
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- Department of Statistics, Stanford University , Stanford, CA , USA
- Graduate School of Business, Stanford University , Stanford, CA , USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL , USA
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Faucheux L, Soumelis V, Chevret S. Multiobjective semisupervised learning with a right-censored endpoint adapted to the multiple imputation framework. Biom J 2022; 64:1446-1466. [PMID: 34180091 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.202000365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Revised: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Semisupervised learning aims to use additional knowledge in the search for data structure. In clinical applications, including predictive information in the construction of a data-driven classification is of major importance. This work was motivated by a study that aimed to identify different patterns of immune parameters that would be associated with relapse-free survival in a cohort of breast cancer patients. Supervised and unsupervised objectives can be concomitantly optimized using multiobjective optimization. We propose such a procedure that addresses two challenges in the semisupervised approach, that is, missing data and additional knowledge based on survival time. The former was handled by using multiple imputation and consensus clustering. Survival information was incorporated in the supervised objective through the estimation of a cross-validation error of a Cox regression. A simulation study was performed to assess the performance of the proposed procedure. On complete datasets, the performances were compared to those of an existing modified multiobjective semisupervised learning method. The added value of including the survival data in the learning process was assessed by comparing the procedure to unsupervised learning. The proposed procedure showed better performance than the existing method, notably in the selection of the number of clusters. On incomplete datasets, the procedure showed little sensitivity to most of its parameters, even though a high number of imputations and partition initialization seeds improved the performance. The performance was degraded with a high proportion of missing data (40%) and with more ambiguous data structures. Simulation results and application on real data support the conclusion that our procedure enables the construction of a classification associated with a right-censored endpoint on a possibly incomplete dataset.
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- Lilith Faucheux
- Université de Paris, Statistic and epidemiologic research center, INSERM UMR-1153, ECSTRRA Team, Paris, France.,Université de Paris, INSERM U976, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, INSERM U976, Paris, France.,Laboratoire d'immunologie, biologie et histocompatibilité, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, Statistic and epidemiologic research center, INSERM UMR-1153, ECSTRRA Team, Paris, France.,Service de Biostatistique et Information Médicale, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
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Fielding MW, Cunningham CX, Buettel JC, Stojanovic D, Yates LA, Jones ME, Brook BW. Dominant carnivore loss benefits native avian and invasive mammalian scavengers. Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20220521. [PMID: 36285494 PMCID: PMC9597402 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Scavenging by large carnivores is integral for ecosystem functioning by limiting the build-up of carrion and facilitating widespread energy flows. However, top carnivores have declined across the world, triggering trophic shifts within ecosystems. Here, we compare findings from previous work on predator decline against areas with recent native mammalian carnivore loss. Specifically, we investigate top-down control on utilization of experimentally placed carcasses by two mesoscavengers—the invasive feral cat and native forest raven. Ravens profited most from carnivore loss, scavenging for five times longer in the absence of native mammalian carnivores. Cats scavenged on half of all carcasses in the region without dominant native carnivores. This was eight times more than in areas where other carnivores were at high densities. All carcasses persisted longer than the three-week monitoring period in the absence of native mammalian carnivores, while in areas with high carnivore abundance, all carcasses were fully consumed. Our results reveal that top-carnivore loss amplifies impacts associated with carnivore decline—increased carcass persistence and carrion access for smaller scavengers. This suggests that even at low densities, native mammalian carnivores can fulfil their ecological functions, demonstrating the significance of global carnivore conservation and supporting management approaches, such as trophic rewilding.
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- Matthew W. Fielding
- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2100, USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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Nonparametric inference on smoothed quantile regression process. Comput Stat Data Anal 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2022.107645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Ding R, Prasanna P, Corredor G, Barrera C, Zens P, Lu C, Velu P, Leo P, Beig N, Li H, Toro P, Berezowska S, Baxi V, Balli D, Belete M, Rimm DL, Velcheti V, Schalper K, Madabhushi A. Image analysis reveals molecularly distinct patterns of TILs in NSCLC associated with treatment outcome. NPJ Precis Oncol 2022; 6:33. [PMID: 35661148 PMCID: PMC9166700 DOI: 10.1038/s41698-022-00277-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite known histological, biological, and clinical differences between lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC), relatively little is known about the spatial differences in their corresponding immune contextures. Our study of over 1000 LUAD and LUSC tumors revealed that computationally derived patterns of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) on H&E images were different between LUAD (N = 421) and LUSC (N = 438), with TIL density being prognostic of overall survival in LUAD and spatial arrangement being more prognostically relevant in LUSC. In addition, the LUAD-specific TIL signature was associated with OS in an external validation set of 100 NSCLC treated with more than six different neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimens, and predictive of response to therapy in the clinical trial CA209-057 (n = 303). In LUAD, the prognostic TIL signature was primarily comprised of CD4+ T and CD8+ T cells, whereas in LUSC, the immune patterns were comprised of CD4+ T, CD8+ T, and CD20+ B cells. In both subtypes, prognostic TIL features were associated with transcriptomics-derived immune scores and biological pathways implicated in immune recognition, response, and evasion. Our results suggest the need for histologic subtype-specific TIL-based models for stratifying survival risk and predicting response to therapy. Our findings suggest that predictive models for response to therapy will need to account for the unique morphologic and molecular immune patterns as a function of histologic subtype of NSCLC.
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Grants
- UL1 TR002548 NCATS NIH HHS
- R01 CA216579 NCI NIH HHS
- UL1 TR001863 NCATS NIH HHS
- R03 CA219603 NCI NIH HHS
- C06 RR012463 NCRR NIH HHS
- U24 CA199374 NCI NIH HHS
- I01 BX004121 BLRD VA
- R43 EB028736 NIBIB NIH HHS
- U54 CA254566 NCI NIH HHS
- U01 CA239055 NCI NIH HHS
- R37 CA245154 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA220581 NCI NIH HHS
- P50 CA196530 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA202752 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA208236 NCI NIH HHS
- Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute under award numbers 1U24CA199374-01, R01CA202752-01A1, R01CA208236-01A1, R01 CA216579-01A1, R01 CA220581-01A1, 1U01 CA239055-01, 1U01CA248226-01, 1U54CA254566-01, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1R01HL15127701A1, National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering 1R43EB028736-01, National Center for Research Resources under award number 1 C06 RR12463-01, VA Merit Review Award IBX004121A from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, through the Breast Cancer Research Program (W81XWH-19-1-0668), the Prostate Cancer Research Program (W81XWH-15-1-0558, W81XWH-20-1-0851), the Lung Cancer Research Program (W81XWH-18-1-0440, W81XWH-20-1-0595), the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (W81XWH-18-1-0404), the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) Glue Grant, the Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation Fund, the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland (UL1TR0002548) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) component of the National Institutes of Health and NIH roadmap for Medical Research, The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Program in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (CON501692).
- A scholarship of the Cancer Research Switzerland (MD-PhD-5088-06-2020).
- the National Cancer Institute under award numbers R03CA219603, R37CA245154, P50CA196530, the Lung Cancer Research Program W81XWH-16-1-0160 and the Stand Up To Cancer – American Cancer Society Lung Cancer Dream Team Translational Research Grants SU2C-AACR-DT1715 and SU2C-AACR-DT22-17
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- Ruiwen Ding
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
- Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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Kernel regression for cause-specific hazard models with time-dependent coefficients. Comput Stat 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00180-022-01227-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Li R, Ugai T, Xu L, Zucker D, Ogino S, Wang M. Utility of Continuous Disease Subtyping Systems for Improved Evaluation of Etiologic Heterogeneity. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14:1811. [PMID: 35406583 PMCID: PMC8997600 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14071811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 03/26/2022] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Molecular pathologic diagnosis is important in clinical (oncology) practice. Integration of molecular pathology into epidemiological methods (i.e., molecular pathological epidemiology) allows for investigating the distinct etiology of disease subtypes based on biomarker analyses, thereby contributing to precision medicine and prevention. However, existing approaches for investigating etiological heterogeneity deal with categorical subtypes. We aimed to fully leverage continuous measures available in most biomarker readouts (gene/protein expression levels, signaling pathway activation, immune cell counts, microbiome/microbial abundance in tumor microenvironment, etc.). We present a cause-specific Cox proportional hazards regression model for evaluating how the exposure-disease subtype association changes across continuous subtyping biomarker levels. Utilizing two longitudinal observational prospective cohort studies, we investigated how the association of alcohol intake (a risk factor) with colorectal cancer incidence differed across the continuous values of tumor epigenetic DNA methylation at long interspersed nucleotide element-1 (LINE-1). The heterogeneous alcohol effect was modeled using different functions of the LINE-1 marker to demonstrate the method's flexibility. This real-world proof-of-principle computational application demonstrates how the new method enables visualizing the trend of the exposure effect over continuous marker levels. The utilization of continuous biomarker data without categorization for investigating etiological heterogeneity can advance our understanding of biological and pathogenic mechanisms.
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- Ruitong Li
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; (R.L.); (S.O.)
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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- Department of Statistics and Data Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel;
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; (R.L.); (S.O.)
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Cancer Immunology and Cancer Epidemiology Programs, Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Variable Selection for Generalized Linear Models with Interval-Censored Failure Time Data. MATHEMATICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/math10050763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Variable selection is often needed in many fields and has been discussed by many authors in various situations. This is especially the case under linear models and when one observes complete data. Among others, one common situation where variable selection is required is to identify important risk factors from a large number of covariates. In this paper, we consider the problem when one observes interval-censored failure time data arising from generalized linear models, for which there does not seem to exist an established method. To address this, we propose a penalized least squares method with the use of an unbiased transformation and the oracle property of the method is established along with the asymptotic normality of the resulting estimators of regression parameters. Simulation studies were conducted and demonstrated that the proposed method performed well for practical situations. In addition, the method was applied to a motivating example about children’s mortality data of Nigeria.
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Alqahtani K, Taylor CC, Wood HM, Gusnanto A. Sparse modelling of cancer patients' survival based on genomic copy number alterations. J Biomed Inform 2022; 128:104025. [PMID: 35181494 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Revised: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Copy number alterations (CNA) are structural variation in the genome, in which some regions exhibit more or less than the normal two chromosomal copies. This genomic CNA profile provides critical information in tumour progression and is therefore informative for patients' survival. It is currently a statistical challenge to model patients' survival using their genomic CNA profiles while at the same time identify regions in the genome that are associated with patients' survival. Some methods have been proposed, including Cox proportional hazard (PH) model with ridge, lasso, or elastic net penalties. However, these methods do not take the general dependencies between genomic regions into account and produce results that are difficult to interpret. In this paper, we extend the elastic net penalty by introducing additional penalty that takes into account general dependencies between genomic regions. This new model produces smooth parameter estimates while simultaneously performs variable selection via sparse solution. The results indicate that the proposed method shows a better prediction performance than other models in our simulation study, while enabling us to investigate regions in the genome that are associated with the patients' survival with sensible interpretation. We illustrate the method using a real dataset from a lung cancer cohort and simulated data.
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- Khaled Alqahtani
- Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Humanitarian Studies, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia; Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St. James's, University of Leeds, Leeds LS9 7TF
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- Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Construction of a prediction model for drug removal rate in hemodialysis based on chemical structures. Mol Divers 2022; 26:2647-2657. [PMID: 34973116 PMCID: PMC9532302 DOI: 10.1007/s11030-021-10348-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Abstract In designing drug dosing for hemodialysis patients, the removal rate (RR) of the drug by hemodialysis is important. However, acquiring the RR is difficult, and there is a need for an estimation method that can be used in clinical settings. In this study, the RR predictive model was constructed using the RR of known drugs by quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) analysis. Drugs were divided into a model construction drug set (75%) and a model validation drug set (25%). The RR was collected from 143 medicines. The objective variable (RR) and chemical structural characteristics (descriptors) of the drug (explanatory variable) were used to construct a prediction model using partial least squares (PLS) regression and artificial neural network (ANN) analyses. The determination coefficients in the PLS and ANN methods were 0.586 and 0.721 for the model validation drug set, respectively. QSAR analysis successfully constructed dialysis RR prediction models that were comparable or superior to those using pharmacokinetic parameters. Considering that the RR dataset contains potential errors, we believe that this study has achieved the most reliable RR prediction accuracy currently available. These predictive RR models can be achieved using only the chemical structure of the drug. This model is expected to be applied at the time of hemodialysis. Graphic Abstract ![]()
Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11030-021-10348-7.
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Penalized spline estimation for panel count data model with time-varying coefficients. Comput Stat 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00180-021-01109-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Bertrand F, Maumy-Bertrand M. Fitting and Cross-Validating Cox Models to Censored Big Data With Missing Values Using Extensions of Partial Least Squares Regression Models. Front Big Data 2021; 4:684794. [PMID: 34790895 PMCID: PMC8591675 DOI: 10.3389/fdata.2021.684794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Fitting Cox models in a big data context -on a massive scale in terms of volume, intensity, and complexity exceeding the capacity of usual analytic tools-is often challenging. If some data are missing, it is even more difficult. We proposed algorithms that were able to fit Cox models in high dimensional settings using extensions of partial least squares regression to the Cox models. Some of them were able to cope with missing data. We were recently able to extend our most recent algorithms to big data, thus allowing to fit Cox model for big data with missing values. When cross-validating standard or extended Cox models, the commonly used criterion is the cross-validated partial loglikelihood using a naive or a van Houwelingen scheme -to make efficient use of the death times of the left out data in relation to the death times of all the data. Quite astonishingly, we will show, using a strong simulation study involving three different data simulation algorithms, that these two cross-validation methods fail with the extensions, either straightforward or more involved ones, of partial least squares regression to the Cox model. This is quite an interesting result for at least two reasons. Firstly, several nice features of PLS based models, including regularization, interpretability of the components, missing data support, data visualization thanks to biplots of individuals and variables -and even parsimony or group parsimony for Sparse partial least squares or sparse group SPLS based models, account for a common use of these extensions by statisticians who usually select their hyperparameters using cross-validation. Secondly, they are almost always featured in benchmarking studies to assess the performance of a new estimation technique used in a high dimensional or big data context and often show poor statistical properties. We carried out a vast simulation study to evaluate more than a dozen of potential cross-validation criteria, either AUC or prediction error based. Several of them lead to the selection of a reasonable number of components. Using these newly found cross-validation criteria to fit extensions of partial least squares regression to the Cox model, we performed a benchmark reanalysis that showed enhanced performances of these techniques. In addition, we proposed sparse group extensions of our algorithms and defined a new robust measure based on the Schmid score and the R coefficient of determination for least absolute deviation: the integrated R Schmid Score weighted. The R-package used in this article is available on the CRAN, http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/plsRcox/index.html. The R package bigPLS will soon be available on the CRAN and, until then, is available on Github https://github.com/fbertran/bigPLS.
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- Frédéric Bertrand
- LIST3N, Université de Technologie de Troyes, Troyes, France
- IRMA, CNRS UMR 7501, Labex IRMIA, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- LIST3N, Université de Technologie de Troyes, Troyes, France
- IRMA, CNRS UMR 7501, Labex IRMIA, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Zhao Y, Zhang H, Chen Y, Wu T, Zhang J. Choosing placental hypoxic-ischemic measures that have clinical implications in child development and diseases. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2021; 35:7238-7247. [PMID: 34525890 DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2021.1946782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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PURPOSE Placental hypoxic-ischemic pathology is one of the common causes for adverse outcomes. But there is no commonly accepted evaluation system on specific morphological and histopathological measures of the placenta. OBJECTIVE This study aims to systematically select several core placental hypoxic-ischemic measures that have a high prognostic relevance to child health. METHODS We used data from the Collaborative Perinatal Project, a multicenter prospective cohort study that recruited over 55,000 pregnant women and followed their offspring to 7 years old. Women who had information on placental pathology and child outcomes were included. 57 placental measures considered to be relevant to hypoxia-ischemia were selected. Apgar score, intelligence quotient, preeclampsia, birth weight and subclinical neurology injuries were chosen as outcomes. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) procedure as well as training and testing methods were used to select a more efficient and simpler placental hypoxic-ischemic measures that may have clinical implications. RESULTS Of the 57 measures, 7 were selected as candidates by LASSO. Based on the training and testing methods, we retained placental measures with a higher odds ratio of child morbidity. We further narrowed down to four measures that had the highest prognostic relevance. They were: short cord length (ΣOR = 8.51), calcification of cut surface (ΣOR = 8.31), opaque membranes (ΣOR = 5.26), Hofbauer cells in terminal villi (ΣOR = 4.69). CONCLUSIONS Our four-measure system is relatively simple and closely related to the child health. It may be used as a novel placental hypoxic-ischemic evaluation criterion, and function as the first line tool for future research.
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- Yanjun Zhao
- Department of Child Health Care, Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Departments of Pathology and Bio-Bank, the International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Ministry of Education-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Ministry of Education-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Ministry of Education-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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Xu X, Huang L, Wu R, Zhang W, Ding G, Liu L, Chi M, Xie J. Multi-Feature Fusion Method for Identifying Carotid Artery Vulnerable Plaque. Ing Rech Biomed 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.irbm.2021.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Jreich R, Sebastien B. Comparison of statistical methodologies used to estimate the treatment effect on time-to-event outcomes in observational studies. J Biopharm Stat 2021; 31:469-489. [PMID: 34403296 DOI: 10.1080/10543406.2021.1918140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The use of real-world data became more and more popular in the pharmaceutical industry. The impact of real-world evidence is now well emphasized by the regulatory authorities. Indeed, the analysis of this type of data can play a key role for treatment efficacy and safety. The aim of this work is to assess various methods and give guidance on the comparisons of drugs, mostly with respect to time-to-event data, in non-randomized studies with potentially confounding variables. For that purpose, several statistical methodologies are compared based on simulation studies. These methodologies belong to family classes of methods that are widely used for this type of problem: regression, matching, weighting and subclassification methods. The evaluation criteria used to compare methods performances are the relative bias, the mean square error, the coverage probability and the width of the confidence interval. In this paper, we consider different scenarios of dataset features in order to study the effect of the sample size, the number of covariates and the magnitude of the treatment effect on the statistical methodologies performances. These statistical analyses are conducted within a proportional hazard model framework. Furthermore, we highlight the advantage of using techniques to identify relevant covariates for time-to-event outcomes by comparing two variable selection methods under a frequentist and a Bayesian inference. Based on simulation results, recommendations on each of the family of methods are provided to guide decision making.
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- Rana Jreich
- R&D Data and Data Science, Clinical Modeling & Evidence Integration, Sanofi
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- R&D Data and Data Science, Clinical Modeling & Evidence Integration, Sanofi
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Xu N, Solari A, Goeman J. Globaltest confidence regions and their application to ridge regression. Biom J 2021; 63:1351-1365. [PMID: 34046931 PMCID: PMC8519024 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.202000063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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We construct confidence regions in high dimensions by inverting the globaltest statistics, and use them to choose the tuning parameter for penalized regression. The selected model corresponds to the point in the confidence region of the parameters that minimizes the penalty, making it the least complex model that still has acceptable fit according to the test that defines the confidence region. As the globaltest is particularly powerful in the presence of many weak predictors, it connects well to ridge regression, and we thus focus on ridge penalties in this paper. The confidence region method is quick to calculate, intuitive, and gives decent predictive potential. As a tuning parameter selection method it may even outperform classical methods such as cross‐validation in terms of mean squared error of prediction, especially when the signal is weak. We illustrate the method for linear models in simulation study and for Cox models in real gene expression data of breast cancer samples.
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- Ningning Xu
- Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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He K, Zhu J, Kang J, Li Y. Stratified Cox models with time-varying effects for national kidney transplant patients: A new blockwise steepest ascent method. Biometrics 2021; 78:1221-1232. [PMID: 33870494 DOI: 10.1111/biom.13473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Analyzing the national transplant database, which contains about 300,000 kidney transplant patients treated in over 290 transplant centers, may guide the disease management and inform the policy of kidney transplantation. Cox models stratified by centers provide a convenient means to account for the clustered data structure, while studying more than 160 predictors with effects that may vary over time. As fitting a time-varying effect model with such a large sample size may defy any existing software, we propose a blockwise steepest ascent procedure by leveraging the block structure of parameters inherent from the basis expansions for each coefficient function. The algorithm iteratively updates the optimal blockwise search direction, along which the increment of the partial likelihood is maximized. The proposed method can be interpreted from the perspective of the minorization-maximization algorithm and increases the partial likelihood until convergence. We further propose a Wald statistic to test whether the effects are indeed time varying. We evaluate the utility of the proposed method via simulations. Finally, we apply the method to analyze the national kidney transplant data and detect the time-varying nature of the effects of various risk factors.
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- Kevin He
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Vistisen D, Andersen GS, Hulman A, McGurnaghan SJ, Colhoun HM, Henriksen JE, Thomsen RW, Persson F, Rossing P, Jørgensen ME. A Validated Prediction Model for End-Stage Kidney Disease in Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2021; 44:901-907. [PMID: 33509931 DOI: 10.2337/dc20-2586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is a life-threatening complication of diabetes that can be prevented or delayed by intervention. Hence, early detection of people at increased risk is essential. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS From a population-based cohort of 5,460 clinically diagnosed Danish adults with type 1 diabetes followed from 2001 to 2016, we developed a prediction model for ESKD accounting for the competing risk of death. Poisson regression analysis was used to estimate the model on the basis of information routinely collected from clinical examinations. The effect of including an extended set of predictors (lipids, alcohol intake, etc.) was further evaluated, and potential interactions identified in a survival tree analysis were tested. The final model was externally validated in 9,175 adults from Denmark and Scotland. RESULTS During a median follow-up of 10.4 years (interquartile limits 5.1; 14.7), 303 (5.5%) of the participants (mean [SD] age 42.3 [16.5] years) developed ESKD, and 764 (14.0%) died without having developed ESKD. The final ESKD prediction model included age, male sex, diabetes duration, estimated glomerular filtration rate, micro- and macroalbuminuria, systolic blood pressure, hemoglobin A1c, smoking, and previous cardiovascular disease. Discrimination was excellent for 5-year risk of an ESKD event, with a C-statistic of 0.888 (95% CI 0.849; 0.927) in the derivation cohort and confirmed at 0.865 (0.811; 0.919) and 0.961 (0.940; 0.981) in the external validation cohorts from Denmark and Scotland, respectively. CONCLUSIONS We have derived and validated a novel, high-performing ESKD prediction model for risk stratification in the adult type 1 diabetes population. This model may improve clinical decision making and potentially guide early intervention.
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- Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte, Denmark.,University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte, Denmark.,National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Wang Y, Yu Z. A kernel regression model for panel count data with nonparametric covariate functions. Biometrics 2021; 78:586-597. [PMID: 33559887 DOI: 10.1111/biom.13440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2020] [Revised: 01/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The local kernel pseudo-partial likelihood is employed for estimation in a panel count model with nonparametric covariate functions. An estimator of the derivative of the nonparametric covariate function is derived first, and the nonparametric function estimator is then obtained by integrating the derivative estimator. Uniform consistency rates and pointwise asymptotic normality are obtained for the local derivative estimator under some regularity conditions. Moreover, the baseline function estimator is shown to be uniformly consistent. Demonstration of the asymptotic results strongly relies on the modern empirical theory, which generally does not require the Poisson assumption. Simulation studies also illustrate that the local derivative estimator performs well in a finite-sample regardless of whether the Poisson assumption holds. We also implement the proposed methodology to analyze a clinical study on childhood wheezing.
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- Yang Wang
- Department of Statistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Centre for Biostatistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Department of Statistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Centre for Biostatistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Dang X, Huang S, Qian X. Risk Factor Identification in Heterogeneous Disease Progression with L1-Regularized Multi-state Models. JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS RESEARCH 2021; 5:20-53. [DOI: 10.1007/s41666-020-00085-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Revised: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Kantidakis G, Putter H, Lancia C, Boer JD, Braat AE, Fiocco M. Survival prediction models since liver transplantation - comparisons between Cox models and machine learning techniques. BMC Med Res Methodol 2020; 20:277. [PMID: 33198650 PMCID: PMC7667810 DOI: 10.1186/s12874-020-01153-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Predicting survival of recipients after liver transplantation is regarded as one of the most important challenges in contemporary medicine. Hence, improving on current prediction models is of great interest.Nowadays, there is a strong discussion in the medical field about machine learning (ML) and whether it has greater potential than traditional regression models when dealing with complex data. Criticism to ML is related to unsuitable performance measures and lack of interpretability which is important for clinicians. METHODS In this paper, ML techniques such as random forests and neural networks are applied to large data of 62294 patients from the United States with 97 predictors selected on clinical/statistical grounds, over more than 600, to predict survival from transplantation. Of particular interest is also the identification of potential risk factors. A comparison is performed between 3 different Cox models (with all variables, backward selection and LASSO) and 3 machine learning techniques: a random survival forest and 2 partial logistic artificial neural networks (PLANNs). For PLANNs, novel extensions to their original specification are tested. Emphasis is given on the advantages and pitfalls of each method and on the interpretability of the ML techniques. RESULTS Well-established predictive measures are employed from the survival field (C-index, Brier score and Integrated Brier Score) and the strongest prognostic factors are identified for each model. Clinical endpoint is overall graft-survival defined as the time between transplantation and the date of graft-failure or death. The random survival forest shows slightly better predictive performance than Cox models based on the C-index. Neural networks show better performance than both Cox models and random survival forest based on the Integrated Brier Score at 10 years. CONCLUSION In this work, it is shown that machine learning techniques can be a useful tool for both prediction and interpretation in the survival context. From the ML techniques examined here, PLANN with 1 hidden layer predicts survival probabilities the most accurately, being as calibrated as the Cox model with all variables. TRIAL REGISTRATION Retrospective data were provided by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients under Data Use Agreement number 9477 for analysis of risk factors after liver transplantation.
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- Georgios Kantidakis
- Mathematical Institute (MI) Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden, 2333 CA, the Netherlands. .,Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Section Medical Statistics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Albinusdreef 2, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands. .,Department of Statistics, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Headquarters, Ave E. Mounier 83/11, Brussels, 1200, Belgium.
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- Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Section Medical Statistics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Albinusdreef 2, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands
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- Mathematical Institute (MI) Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden, 2333 CA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Albinusdreef 2, Leiden, 2333 ZA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Albinusdreef 2, Leiden, 2333 ZA, the Netherlands
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- Mathematical Institute (MI) Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden, 2333 CA, the Netherlands.,Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Section Medical Statistics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Albinusdreef 2, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands.,Trial and Data Center, Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology (PMC), Heidelberglaan 25, Utrecht, 3584 CS, the Netherlands
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Yi F, Tang N, Sun J. Simultaneous variable selection and estimation for joint models of longitudinal and failure time data with interval censoring. Biometrics 2020; 78:151-164. [PMID: 33031576 DOI: 10.1111/biom.13387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2019] [Revised: 09/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This paper discusses variable selection in the context of joint analysis of longitudinal data and failure time data. A large literature has been developed for either variable selection or the joint analysis but there exists only limited literature for variable selection in the context of the joint analysis when failure time data are right censored. Corresponding to this, we will consider the situation where instead of right-censored data, one observes interval-censored failure time data, a more general and commonly occurring form of failure time data. For the problem, a class of penalized likelihood-based procedures will be developed for simultaneous variable selection and estimation of relevant covariate effects for both longitudinal and failure time variables of interest. In particular, a Monte Carlo EM (MCEM) algorithm is presented for the implementation of the proposed approach. The proposed method allows for the number of covariates to be diverging with the sample size and is shown to have the oracle property. An extensive simulation study is conducted to assess the finite sample performance of the proposed approach and indicates that it works well in practical situations. An application is also provided.
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- Fengting Yi
- School of Statistics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China.,Yunnan Key Laboratory of Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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Ehrsam JP, Held U, Opitz I, Inci I. A new lung donor score to predict short and long-term survival in lung transplantation. J Thorac Dis 2020; 12:5485-5494. [PMID: 33209382 PMCID: PMC7656336 DOI: 10.21037/jtd-20-2043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Background Donor selection criteria are crucial for a successful lung transplant outcome. Our objective was to develop a new donor score to predict short- and long-term survival and validate it with five existing lung donor scores (Oto, Eurotransplant, Minnesota, Maryland-UNOS, Louisville-UNOS). Methods All 454 adult lung transplants at our center between 1992–2015 were included to develop a new score. Discriminative ability for all scores was calculated by the area under time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curves (time-dependent AUC) at 30-day, 1, 5 and 10-year survival, and their fit compared with Akaike’s information criterion. For the new score, five pre-selected donor risk factors were derived: age, diabetes mellitus, smoking history, pulmonary infection, PaO2/FiO2-ratio, weighed via simplification of a multiple Cox model, and shrinkage used to avoid overfitting. The score sub-weighting resulted in a total of 17 points. Results The existing scores showed predictive accuracy better than chance in prediction of survival of 5-year (AUC 0.58–0.60) to 10-year survival (AUC 0.58–0.64). Our new score had better discriminative ability as the existing scores with regard to 1, 5 and 10-year survival (AUC 0.59, 0.64, 0.66, respectively). Additional adjustment for recipient and surgical procedure variables improved the time-dependent AUC’s slightly. For the secondary outcomes primary graft dysfunction and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, the new score showed also a good predictive accuracy. Conclusions The proposed Zurich Donor Score is simple, well adapted for the current urge of extended donors use, and shows higher discriminative ability compared to preexisting donor scores regarding short- to long-term survival.
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- Jonas P Ehrsam
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Zurich, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biostatistics at Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Zurich, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Zurich, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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Wu Q, Zhao H, Zhu L, Sun J. Variable selection for high-dimensional partly linear additive Cox model with application to Alzheimer's disease. Stat Med 2020; 39:3120-3134. [PMID: 32652699 DOI: 10.1002/sim.8594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2019] [Revised: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Variable selection has been discussed under many contexts and especially, a large literature has been established for the analysis of right-censored failure time data. In this article, we discuss an interval-censored failure time situation where there exist two sets of covariates with one being low-dimensional and having possible nonlinear effects and the other being high-dimensional. For the problem, we present a penalized estimation procedure for simultaneous variable selection and estimation, and in the method, Bernstein polynomials are used to approximate the involved nonlinear functions. Furthermore, for implementation, a coordinate-wise optimization algorithm, which can accommodate most commonly used penalty functions, is developed. A numerical study is performed for the evaluation of the proposed approach and suggests that it works well in practical situations. Finally the method is applied to an Alzheimer's disease study that motivated this investigation.
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- Qiwei Wu
- Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China
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- Division of Clinical and Translational Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Belhechmi S, Bin RD, Rotolo F, Michiels S. Accounting for grouped predictor variables or pathways in high-dimensional penalized Cox regression models. BMC Bioinformatics 2020; 21:277. [PMID: 32615919 PMCID: PMC7331150 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-03618-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The standard lasso penalty and its extensions are commonly used to develop a regularized regression model while selecting candidate predictor variables on a time-to-event outcome in high-dimensional data. However, these selection methods focus on a homogeneous set of variables and do not take into account the case of predictors belonging to functional groups; typically, genomic data can be grouped according to biological pathways or to different types of collected data. Another challenge is that the standard lasso penalisation is known to have a high false discovery rate. RESULTS We evaluated different penalizations in a Cox model to select grouped variables in order to further penalize variables that, in addition to having a low effect, belong to a group with a low overall effect; and to favor the selection of variables that, in addition to having a large effect, belong to a group with a large overall effect. We considered the case of prespecified and disjoint groups and proposed diverse weights for the adaptive lasso method. In particular we proposed the product Max Single Wald by Single Wald weighting (MSW*SW) which takes into account the information of the group to which it belongs and of this biomarker. Through simulations, we compared the selection and prediction ability of our approach with the standard lasso, the composite Minimax Concave Penalty (cMCP), the group exponential lasso (gel), the Integrative L1-Penalized Regression with Penalty Factors (IPF-Lasso), and the Sparse Group Lasso (SGL) methods. In addition, we illustrated the methods using gene expression data of 614 breast cancer patients. CONCLUSIONS The adaptive lasso with the MSW*SW weighting method incorporates both the information in the grouping structure and the individual variable. It outperformed the competitors by reducing the false discovery rate without severely increasing the false negative rate.
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- Shaima Belhechmi
- Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Paris-Sud, UVSQ, CESP, INSERM U1018 Oncostat, Villejuif, F-94805, France.,Service de biostatistique et d'épidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, F-94805, France
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- Biostatistics and Data Management Unit, Innate Pharma, Marseille, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Paris-Sud, UVSQ, CESP, INSERM U1018 Oncostat, Villejuif, F-94805, France. .,Service de biostatistique et d'épidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, F-94805, France.
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Wang JH, Pan CH, Chang IS, Hsiung CA. Penalized full likelihood approach to variable selection for Cox's regression model under nested case-control sampling. LIFETIME DATA ANALYSIS 2020; 26:292-314. [PMID: 31065967 DOI: 10.1007/s10985-019-09475-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Assuming Cox's regression model, we consider penalized full likelihood approach to conduct variable selection under nested case-control (NCC) sampling. Penalized non-parametric maximum likelihood estimates (PNPMLEs) are characterized by self-consistency equations derived from score functions. A cross-validation method based on profile likelihood is used to choose the tuning parameter within a family of penalty functions. Simulation studies indicate that the numerical performance of (P)NPMLE is better than weighted partial likelihood in estimating the log-relative risk and in identifying the covariates and the model, under NCC sampling. LASSO performs best when cohort size is small; SCAD performs best when cohort size is large and may eventually perform as well as the oracle estimator. Using the SCAD penalty, we establish the consistency, asymptotic normality, and oracle properties of the PNPMLE, as well as the sparsity property of the penalty. We also propose a consistent estimate of the asymptotic variance using observed profile likelihood. Our method is illustrated to analyze the diagnosis of liver cancer among those in a type 2 diabetic mellitus dataset who were treated with thiazolidinediones in Taiwan.
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- Jie-Huei Wang
- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, 35, Keyan Rd., Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, 35053, Taiwan
- Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, 128, Academia Rd., Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, 128, Academia Rd., Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, 35, Keyan Rd., Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, 35053, Taiwan.
- National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, 35, Keyan Rd., Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, 35053, Taiwan.
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, 35, Keyan Rd., Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, 35053, Taiwan
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Kawaguchi ES, Suchard MA, Liu Z, Li G. A surrogate ℓ 0 sparse Cox's regression with applications to sparse high-dimensional massive sample size time-to-event data. Stat Med 2020; 39:675-686. [PMID: 31814146 DOI: 10.1002/sim.8438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2019] [Revised: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 11/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Sparse high-dimensional massive sample size (sHDMSS) time-to-event data present multiple challenges to quantitative researchers as most current sparse survival regression methods and software will grind to a halt and become practically inoperable. This paper develops a scalable ℓ0 -based sparse Cox regression tool for right-censored time-to-event data that easily takes advantage of existing high performance implementation of ℓ2 -penalized regression method for sHDMSS time-to-event data. Specifically, we extend the ℓ0 -based broken adaptive ridge (BAR) methodology to the Cox model, which involves repeatedly performing reweighted ℓ2 -penalized regression. We rigorously show that the resulting estimator for the Cox model is selection consistent, oracle for parameter estimation, and has a grouping property for highly correlated covariates. Furthermore, we implement our BAR method in an R package for sHDMSS time-to-event data by leveraging existing efficient algorithms for massive ℓ2 -penalized Cox regression. We evaluate the BAR Cox regression method by extensive simulations and illustrate its application on an sHDMSS time-to-event data from the National Trauma Data Bank with hundreds of thousands of observations and tens of thousands sparsely represented covariates.
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- Eric S Kawaguchi
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.,Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, California.,Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.,Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, California
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- Meiling Hao
- School of Statistics, University of International Business and Economics , Beijing , China
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong , Shatin, Hong Kong
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto , Toronto , ON , Canada
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Seferovic PM, Ponikowski P, Anker SD, Bauersachs J, Chioncel O, Cleland JGF, de Boer RA, Drexel H, Ben Gal T, Hill L, Jaarsma T, Jankowska EA, Anker MS, Lainscak M, Lewis BS, McDonagh T, Metra M, Milicic D, Mullens W, Piepoli MF, Rosano G, Ruschitzka F, Volterrani M, Voors AA, Filippatos G, Coats AJS. Clinical practice update on heart failure 2019: pharmacotherapy, procedures, devices and patient management. An expert consensus meeting report of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology. Eur J Heart Fail 2019; 16:1283-91. [PMID: 31129923 DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2014] [Revised: 07/11/2014] [Accepted: 07/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has published a series of guidelines on heart failure (HF) over the last 25 years, most recently in 2016. Given the amount of new information that has become available since then, the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC recognized the need to review and summarise recent developments in a consensus document. Here we report from the HFA workshop that was held in January 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany. This expert consensus report is neither a guideline update nor a position statement, but rather a summary and consensus view in the form of consensus recommendations. The report describes how these guidance statements are supported by evidence, it makes some practical comments, and it highlights new research areas and how progress might change the clinical management of HF. We have avoided re-interpretation of information already considered in the 2016 ESC/HFA guidelines. Specific new recommendations have been made based on the evidence from major trials published since 2016, including sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes mellitus, MitraClip for functional mitral regurgitation, atrial fibrillation ablation in HF, tafamidis in cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis, rivaroxaban in HF, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in non-ischaemic HF, and telemedicine for HF. In addition, new trial evidence from smaller trials and updated meta-analyses have given us the chance to provide refined recommendations in selected other areas. Further, new trial evidence is due in many of these areas and others over the next 2 years, in time for the planned 2021 ESC guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure.
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- Petar M Seferovic
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Heart Failure Center, Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade University Medical Center, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Centre for Heart Diseases, University Hospital, Wroclaw, Department of Heart Diseases, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Cardiology (CVK), Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) partner site Berlin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases 'Prof. C.C. Iliescu', Bucharest, and University of Medicine Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Imperial College, London, UK.,Robertson Centre for Biostatistics and Clinical Trials, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Vorarlberg Institute for Vascular Investigation and Treatment (VIVIT), Feldkirch, Austria.,Private University of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Triesen, Liechtenstein.,Division of Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland.,Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Campus), Petah Tikva, Israel.,Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden
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- Centre for Heart Diseases, University Hospital, Wroclaw, Department of Heart Diseases, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Division of Cardiology and Metabolism, Department of Cardiology & Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin (CVK), Berlin, Germany.,Department of Cardiology, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Cardiology, General Hospital Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota, Slovenia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and Ruth and Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Cardiology, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences, and Public Health, University of Brescia, Italy
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- Department for Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Center Zagreb, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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- Heart Failure Unit, Cardiology, G. da Saliceto Hospital, Piacenza, Italy
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- Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group, St George's Hospitals NHS Trust University of London, London, UK.,IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, University Heart Center, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Heart Failure Unit, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.,School of Medicine, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Cardiology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy
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Fauvernier M, Roche L, Uhry Z, Tron L, Bossard N, Remontet L. Multi‐dimensional penalized hazard model with continuous covariates: applications for studying trends and social inequalities in cancer survival. J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université Lyon 1 France
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- Santé Publique France, Saint Maurice Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université Lyon 1 France
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen Université de Caen Normandie Caen France
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Phung MT, Tin Tin S, Elwood JM. Prognostic models for breast cancer: a systematic review. BMC Cancer 2019; 19:230. [PMID: 30871490 PMCID: PMC6419427 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-019-5442-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with a great diversity in outcomes among individual patients. The ability to accurately predict a breast cancer outcome is important to patients, physicians, researchers, and policy makers. Many models have been developed and tested in different settings. We systematically reviewed the prognostic models developed and/or validated for patients with breast cancer. METHODS We conducted a systematic search in four electronic databases and some oncology websites, and a manual search in the bibliographies of the included studies. We identified original studies that were published prior to 1st January 2017, and presented the development and/or validation of models based mainly on clinico-pathological factors to predict mortality and/or recurrence in female breast cancer patients. RESULTS From the 96 articles selected from 4095 citations found, we identified 58 models, which predicted mortality (n = 28), recurrence (n = 23), or both (n = 7). The most frequently used predictors were nodal status (n = 49), tumour size (n = 42), tumour grade (n = 29), age at diagnosis (n = 24), and oestrogen receptor status (n = 21). Models were developed in Europe (n = 25), Asia (n = 13), North America (n = 12), and Australia (n = 1) between 1982 and 2016. Models were validated in the development cohorts (n = 43) and/or independent populations (n = 17), by comparing the predicted outcomes with the observed outcomes (n = 55) and/or with the outcomes estimated by other models (n = 32), or the outcomes estimated by individual prognostic factors (n = 8). The most commonly used methods were: Cox proportional hazards regression for model development (n = 32); the absolute differences between the predicted and observed outcomes (n = 30) for calibration; and C-index/AUC (n = 44) for discrimination. Overall, the models performed well in the development cohorts but less accurately in some independent populations, particularly in patients with high risk and young and elderly patients. An exception is the Nottingham Prognostic Index, which retains its predicting ability in most independent populations. CONCLUSIONS Many prognostic models have been developed for breast cancer, but only a few have been validated widely in different settings. Importantly, their performance was suboptimal in independent populations, particularly in patients with high risk and in young and elderly patients.
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- Minh Tung Phung
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand.
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
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de Aguiar VG, Segatelli V, Macedo ALDV, Goldenberg A, Gansl RC, Maluf FC, Usón Junior PLS. Signet ring cell component, not the Lauren subtype, predicts poor survival: an analysis of 198 cases of gastric cancer. Future Oncol 2019; 15:401-408. [PMID: 30620220 DOI: 10.2217/fon-2018-0354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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AIM Prognostic differences between major histologic gastric cancer groups, intestinal and diffuse are uncertain, since cellular components in each of them possibly have different behaviors. MATERIALS & METHODS We reviewed 198 gastric cancer patients charts diagnosed from January 2003 to December 2015 in a tertiary hospital. Multivariate Cox proportional survival models were used to evaluate the impact of histologic groups on overall survival. RESULTS About a third had the signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC). In a comparison of the different histologic subtypes, SRCC had the worst prognosis of all. The median durations of survival for patients with stage III and stage IV were 19.7 and 7.7 months, respectively. CONCLUSION Signet-ring cell component seem to have a relevant role in defining prognosis for gastric cancer.
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- Department of Pathology, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Surgery, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Oncology, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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Li K, Anderson G, Viallon V, Arveux P, Kvaskoff M, Fournier A, Krogh V, Tumino R, Sánchez MJ, Ardanaz E, Chirlaque MD, Agudo A, Muller DC, Smith T, Tzoulaki I, Key TJ, Bueno-de-Mesquita B, Trichopoulou A, Bamia C, Orfanos P, Kaaks R, Hüsing A, Fortner RT, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte A, Sund M, Dahm CC, Overvad K, Aune D, Weiderpass E, Romieu I, Riboli E, Gunter MJ, Dossus L, Prentice R, Ferrari P. Risk prediction for estrogen receptor-specific breast cancers in two large prospective cohorts. Breast Cancer Res 2018; 20:147. [PMID: 30509329 PMCID: PMC6276150 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-018-1073-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2018] [Accepted: 11/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Few published breast cancer (BC) risk prediction models consider the heterogeneity of predictor variables between estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) and negative (ER-) tumors. Using data from two large cohorts, we examined whether modeling this heterogeneity could improve prediction. METHODS We built two models, for ER+ (ModelER+) and ER- tumors (ModelER-), respectively, in 281,330 women (51% postmenopausal at recruitment) from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. Discrimination (C-statistic) and calibration (the agreement between predicted and observed tumor risks) were assessed both internally and externally in 82,319 postmenopausal women from the Women's Health Initiative study. We performed decision curve analysis to compare ModelER+ and the Gail model (ModelGail) regarding their applicability in risk assessment for chemoprevention. RESULTS Parity, number of full-term pregnancies, age at first full-term pregnancy and body height were only associated with ER+ tumors. Menopausal status, age at menarche and at menopause, hormone replacement therapy, postmenopausal body mass index, and alcohol intake were homogeneously associated with ER+ and ER- tumors. Internal validation yielded a C-statistic of 0.64 for ModelER+ and 0.59 for ModelER-. External validation reduced the C-statistic of ModelER+ (0.59) and ModelGail (0.57). In external evaluation of calibration, ModelER+ outperformed the ModelGail: the former led to a 9% overestimation of the risk of ER+ tumors, while the latter yielded a 22% underestimation of the overall BC risk. Compared with the treat-all strategy, ModelER+ produced equal or higher net benefits irrespective of the benefit-to-harm ratio of chemoprevention, while ModelGail did not produce higher net benefits unless the benefit-to-harm ratio was below 50. The clinical applicability, i.e. the area defined by the net benefit curve and the treat-all and treat-none strategies, was 12.7 × 10- 6 for ModelER+ and 3.0 × 10- 6 for ModelGail. CONCLUSIONS Modeling heterogeneous epidemiological risk factors might yield little improvement in BC risk prediction. Nevertheless, a model specifically predictive of ER+ tumor risk could be more applicable than an omnibus model in risk assessment for chemoprevention.
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- Kuanrong Li
- Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
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- Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
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- Breast and Gynaecologic Cancer Registry of Côte d’Or, Georges-François Leclerc Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre, Dijon, France
- EA 4184, Medical School, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
- CESP, INSERM U1018, Univ. Paris-Sud, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
- Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- CESP, INSERM U1018, Univ. Paris-Sud, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
- Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- CESP, INSERM U1018, Univ. Paris-Sud, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
- Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department, “Civic-M. P.Arezzo” Hospital, ASP, Ragusa, Italy
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- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs. GRANADA, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/ Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain
- IdiSNA, Navarra Institute for Health Research, Pamplona, Spain
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- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
- Department of Health and Social Sciences, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL. L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department for Determinants of Chronic Diseases, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
- Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Nutrition, Bjørknes University College, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Biomarkers Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
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- Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
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Hou J, Paravati A, Hou J, Xu R, Murphy J. High-dimensional variable selection and prediction under competing risks with application to SEER-Medicare linked data. Stat Med 2018; 37:3486-3502. [DOI: 10.1002/sim.7822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2017] [Revised: 04/09/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Jiayi Hou
- Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla CA 92093 U.S.A
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- Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla CA 92093 U.S.A
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- Department of Mathematics; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla CA 92093 U.S.A
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- Department of Mathematics; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla CA 92093 U.S.A
- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla CA 92093 U.S.A
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- Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla CA 92093 U.S.A
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Biganzoli E, Boracchi P, Daidone M, Gion M, Marubini E. Flexible Modelling in Survival Analysis. Structuring Biological Complexity from the Information Provided by Tumor Markers. Int J Biol Markers 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/172460089801300301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The aim of the present article is to introduce and discuss the problem of optimal modelling of the prognostic information provided by putative prognostic variables, possibly measured on a quantitative scale. A number of methodological aspects will be treated, with particular reference to the role of spline functions and artificial neural networks, which will be discussed in the context of the analysis of survival data. The problem of the evaluation and the choice of the optimal statistical models will be examined, with particular attention to the critical aspects related to the definition of prognostic indexes on the basis of the results of the selected models. Clinical examples in breast cancer on the evaluation of the prognostic impact of several tumor markers are provided. This paper is addressed to all researchers who are interested in the evaluation of the prognostic role of tumor markers, therefore we will stress the necessity of integrating the methodologies of biological, clinical and statistical research in the assessment of prognosis.
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- E. Biganzoli
- Division of Medical Statistics and Biometry, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano
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- Institute of Medical Statistics and Biometry, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano
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- U.O. Determinazioni Biomolecolari nella Prognosi e Terapia dei Tumori, Department of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano
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- Centro Regionale Indicatori Biochimici di Tumore, Ospedale Civile, Venezia - Italy
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- Division of Medical Statistics and Biometry, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Biometry, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano
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Whiteside DM, Caraher K, Hahn-Ketter A, Gaasedelen O, Basso MR. Classification accuracy of individual and combined executive functioning embedded performance validity measures in mild traumatic brain injury. APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY-ADULT 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/23279095.2018.1443935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Höke U, Mertens B, Khidir MJH, Schalij MJ, Bax JJ, Delgado V, Ajmone Marsan N. Usefulness of the CRT-SCORE for Shared Decision Making in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Patients With a Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction of ≤35. Am J Cardiol 2017; 120:2008-2016. [PMID: 29031415 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2017.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2017] [Revised: 07/30/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Individualized estimation of prognosis after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) remains challenging. Our aim was to develop a multiparametric prognostic risk score (CRT-SCORE) that could be used for patient-specific clinical shared decision making about CRT implantation. The CRT-SCORE was derived from an ongoing CRT registry, including 1,053 consecutive patients (age 67 ± 10 years, 76% male). Using preimplantation variables, 100 multiple imputed datasets were generated for model calibration. Based on multivariate Cox regression models, cross-validated linear prognostic scores were calculated, as well as survival fractions at 1 and 5 years. Specifically, the CRT-SCORE was calculated using atrioventricular junction ablation, age, gender, etiology, New York Heart Association class, diabetes, hemoglobin level, renal function, left bundle branch block, QRS duration, atrial fibrillation, left ventricular systolic and diastolic functions, and mitral regurgitation, and showed a good discriminative ability (areas under the curve 0.773 at 1 year and 0.748 at 5 years). During the long-term follow-up (median 60 months, interquartile range 31 to 85), all-cause mortality was observed in 494 (47%) patients. Based on the distribution of the CRT-SCORE, lower- and higher-risk patient groups were identified. Estimated mean survival rates of 98% at 1 year and 92% at 5 years were observed in the lowest 5% risk group (L5 CRT-SCORE: -4.42 to -1.60), whereas the highest 5% risk group (H5 CRT-SCORE: 1.44 to 2.89) showed poor survival rates: 78% at 1 year and 22% at 5 years. In conclusion, the CRT-SCORE allows accurate prediction of 1- and 5-year survival rates after CRT using readily available and CRT-specific clinical, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic parameters. The model may assist clinicians in counseling patients and in decision making.
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- Ulas Höke
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN), Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Medical Statistics Department, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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On the choice and influence of the number of boosting steps for high-dimensional linear Cox-models. Comput Stat 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00180-017-0773-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Gilhodes J, Zemmour C, Ajana S, Martinez A, Delord JP, Leconte E, Boher JM, Filleron T. Comparison of variable selection methods for high-dimensional survival data with competing events. Comput Biol Med 2017; 91:159-167. [PMID: 29078093 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2017.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2017] [Revised: 10/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND In the era of personalized medicine, it's primordial to identify gene signatures for each event type in the context of competing risks in order to improve risk stratification and treatment strategy. Until recently, little attention was paid to the performance of high-dimensional selection in deriving molecular signatures in this context. In this paper, we investigate the performance of two selection methods developed in the framework of high-dimensional data and competing risks: Random survival forest and a boosting approach for fitting proportional subdistribution hazards models. METHODS Using data from bladder cancer patients (GSE5479) and simulated datasets, stability and prognosis performance of the two methods were evaluated using a resampling strategy. For each sample, the data set was split into 100 training and validation sets. Molecular signatures were developed in the training sets by the two selection methods and then applied on the corresponding validation sets. RESULTS Random survival forest and boosting approach have comparable performance for the prediction of survival data, with few selected genes in common. Nevertheless, many different sets of genes are identified by the resampling approach, with a very small frequency of genes occurrence among the signatures. Also, the smaller the training sample size, the lower is the stability of the signatures. CONCLUSION Random survival forest and boosting approach give good predictive performance but gene signatures are very unstable. Further works are needed to propose adequate strategies for the analysis of high-dimensional data in the context of competing risks.
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- Julia Gilhodes
- Department of Biostatistics, Institut Claudius Regaud, IUCT-O, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Clinical Research and Investigation, Biostatistics and Methodology Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Aix Marseille University, INSERM, IRD, SESSTIM, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biostatistics, Institut Claudius Regaud, IUCT-O, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Surgery, Institut Claudius Regaud, IUCT-O, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Claudius Regaud, IUCT-O, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Clinical Research and Investigation, Biostatistics and Methodology Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Aix Marseille University, INSERM, IRD, SESSTIM, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biostatistics, Institut Claudius Regaud, IUCT-O, Toulouse, France.
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Nguyen HN, Lie A, Li T, Chowdhury R, Liu F, Ozer B, Wei B, Green RM, Ellingson BM, Wang HJ, Elashoff R, Liau LM, Yong WH, Nghiemphu PL, Cloughesy T, Lai A. Human TERT promoter mutation enables survival advantage from MGMT promoter methylation in IDH1 wild-type primary glioblastoma treated by standard chemoradiotherapy. Neuro Oncol 2017; 19:394-404. [PMID: 27571882 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/now189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2016] [Accepted: 07/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background Promoter mutation in the human telomerase reverse transcriptase gene (hTERT) occurs in ~75% of primary glioblastoma (GBM). Although the mutation appears to upregulate telomerase expression and contributes to the maintenance of telomere length, its clinical significance remains unclear. Methods We performed hTERT promoter genotyping on 303 isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 wild-type GBM tumors treated with standard chemoradiotherapy. We also stratified 190 GBM patients from the database of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) by hTERT gene expression. We analyzed overall and progression-free survival by Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression. Results We detected hTERT promoter mutation in 75% of the patients. When included as the only biomarker, hTERT mutation was not prognostic in our patient cohort by Cox regression analysis. However, when hTERT and O6-DNA methylguanine-methyltransferase (MGMT) were included together, we observed an interaction between these 2 factors. To further investigate this interaction, we performed pairwise comparison of the 4 patient subcohorts grouped by hTERT-MGMT status (MUT-M, WT-M, MUT-U, and WT-U). MGMT methylated patients showed improved survival only in the presence of hTERT promoter mutation: MUT-M versus MUT-U (overall survival of 28.3 vs 15.9 mos, log-rank P < .0001 and progression-free survival of 15.4 vs 7.86 mo, log-rank P < .0001). These results were confirmed by Cox analyses. Analogously, the cohort from TCGA demonstrated survival benefit of MGMT promoter methylation only in patients with high hTERT expression. In addition, hTERT mutation was negatively prognostic in our MGMT unmethylated patients, while the analogous association with high expression was not observed in the cohort from TCGA. Conclusion The prognostic influence of MGMT promoter methylation depends on hTERT promoter mutation. This interaction warrants further mechanistic investigation.
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- HuyTram N Nguyen
- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Development and validation of a screening instrument to identify cardiometabolic predictors of mortality in older individuals with cancer: Secondary analysis of the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ALSA). J Geriatr Oncol 2017. [PMID: 28642039 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2017.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify significant cardiometabolic predictors of mortality among older cancer survivors and develop and validate a screening instrument to assess individual risk of mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective cohort study used collected data from the ALSA. Cox proportional hazards model was used to derive the risk equation for mortality that could be evaluated at 10years. Measures of discrimination and calibration were calculated in the validation cohort. RESULTS The equation was developed using 294 cancer survivors and validated in 127 different cancer survivors. Significant cardiometabolic predictors of mortality included in the final model are age, sex, history of cerebrovascular disease, non-adherence to exercise guidelines (150min moderate activity per week), and smoking. Discrimination and calibration were acceptable with minimal differences in C statistics (0.0442, 95% CI: -0.0149 to 0.103) and adjusted R2 values (0.0407, 95% CI: -0.181 to 0.0998) between the development and validation cohorts, respectively. CONCLUSION We have developed and validated the first screening tool to predict cardiometabolic risk of mortality in older cancer survivors and defined centile values for risk classification. Further validation and research on the usability and usefulness of the tool in clinical practice are recommended in order to target cancer survivors for interventions. Cost effectiveness of such an approach should also be examined.
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Chen Y, Zou L, Zhao Y, Wu T, Ye J, Zhang H, Zhang J. Creating a placental inflammatory composite index that has a high prognostic relevance to child morbidity. J Obstet Gynaecol Res 2017; 43:1169-1179. [PMID: 28561896 DOI: 10.1111/jog.13328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2016] [Revised: 01/30/2017] [Accepted: 02/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Yan Chen
- MOE-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital; Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai China
- Department of Neonatology, Xinhua Hospital; Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai China
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- Department of Histology and Embryology; Sichuan Medical University; Luzhou China
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- MOE-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital; Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai China
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- MOE-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital; Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai China
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- MOE-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital; Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai China
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- International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital; Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai China
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- MOE-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital; Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai China
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Ternès N, Rotolo F, Michiels S. Robust estimation of the expected survival probabilities from high-dimensional Cox models with biomarker-by-treatment interactions in randomized clinical trials. BMC Med Res Methodol 2017; 17:83. [PMID: 28532387 PMCID: PMC5441049 DOI: 10.1186/s12874-017-0354-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2016] [Accepted: 04/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Thanks to the advances in genomics and targeted treatments, more and more prediction models based on biomarkers are being developed to predict potential benefit from treatments in a randomized clinical trial. Despite the methodological framework for the development and validation of prediction models in a high-dimensional setting is getting more and more established, no clear guidance exists yet on how to estimate expected survival probabilities in a penalized model with biomarker-by-treatment interactions. Methods Based on a parsimonious biomarker selection in a penalized high-dimensional Cox model (lasso or adaptive lasso), we propose a unified framework to: estimate internally the predictive accuracy metrics of the developed model (using double cross-validation); estimate the individual survival probabilities at a given timepoint; construct confidence intervals thereof (analytical or bootstrap); and visualize them graphically (pointwise or smoothed with spline). We compared these strategies through a simulation study covering scenarios with or without biomarker effects. We applied the strategies to a large randomized phase III clinical trial that evaluated the effect of adding trastuzumab to chemotherapy in 1574 early breast cancer patients, for which the expression of 462 genes was measured. Results In our simulations, penalized regression models using the adaptive lasso estimated the survival probability of new patients with low bias and standard error; bootstrapped confidence intervals had empirical coverage probability close to the nominal level across very different scenarios. The double cross-validation performed on the training data set closely mimicked the predictive accuracy of the selected models in external validation data. We also propose a useful visual representation of the expected survival probabilities using splines. In the breast cancer trial, the adaptive lasso penalty selected a prediction model with 4 clinical covariates, the main effects of 98 biomarkers and 24 biomarker-by-treatment interactions, but there was high variability of the expected survival probabilities, with very large confidence intervals. Conclusion Based on our simulations, we propose a unified framework for: developing a prediction model with biomarker-by-treatment interactions in a high-dimensional setting and validating it in absence of external data; accurately estimating the expected survival probability of future patients with associated confidence intervals; and graphically visualizing the developed prediction model. All the methods are implemented in the R package biospear, publicly available on the CRAN. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12874-017-0354-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nils Ternès
- Service de Biostatistique et d'Epidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, B2M, RdC.114 rue Edouard-Vaillant, 94805, Villejuif, France.,CESP, Fac. de médecine - Univ. Paris-Sud, Fac. de médecine - UVSQ, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, 94805, France
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- Service de Biostatistique et d'Epidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, B2M, RdC.114 rue Edouard-Vaillant, 94805, Villejuif, France.,CESP, Fac. de médecine - Univ. Paris-Sud, Fac. de médecine - UVSQ, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, 94805, France
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- Service de Biostatistique et d'Epidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, B2M, RdC.114 rue Edouard-Vaillant, 94805, Villejuif, France. .,CESP, Fac. de médecine - Univ. Paris-Sud, Fac. de médecine - UVSQ, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, 94805, France.
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Hishinuma S, Kosaka K, Akatsu C, Uesawa Y, Fukui H, Shoji M. Asp73-dependent and -independent regulation of the affinity of ligands for human histamine H 1 receptors by Na . Biochem Pharmacol 2016; 128:46-54. [PMID: 28040476 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2016.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 12/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
The affinity of ligands for G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is allosterically regulated by Na+ via a highly conserved aspartate residue (Asp2.50) in the second transmembrane domain of GPCRs. In the present study, we examined the Na+-mediated regulation of the affinity of ligands for Gq/11-protein-coupled human histamine H1 receptors in Chinese hamster ovary cells. The affinities of 3 agonists and 20 antihistamines were evaluated by their displacement curves against the binding of [3H]-mepyramine to membrane preparations in the presence or absence of 100mM NaCl. The affinities of most drugs including histamine, an agonist, and d-chlorpheniramine, a first-generation antihistamine, were reduced by NaCl, with the extent of NaCl-mediated changes varying widely between drugs. In contrast, the affinities of some second-generation antihistamines such as fexofenadine were increased by NaCl. These changes were retained in intact cells. The mutation of Asp2.50 (Asp73) to asparagine abrogated NaCl-induced reductions in affinities for histamine and d-chlorpheniramine, but not NaCl-induced increases in the affinity for fexofenadine. Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analyses showed that these Na+-mediated changes were explained and predicted by a combination of the molecular energies and implicit solvation energies of the compounds. These results suggest that Na+ diversely regulates the affinity of ligands for H1 receptors from the extracellular sites of receptors via Asp73-dependent and -independent mechanisms in a manner that depends on the physicochemical properties of ligands. These results may contribute to a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms by which the affinity of ligands for their receptors is allosterically regulated by Na+.
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- Shigeru Hishinuma
- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8588, Japan.
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8588, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8588, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Pharmaceutics, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8588, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Studies for Incurable Diseases, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8588, Japan
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