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Leich E, Brodtkorb M, Schmidt T, Altenbuchinger M, Lingjærde OC, Lockmer S, Holte H, Nedeva T, Grieb T, Sander B, Sundström C, Spang R, Kimby E, Rosenwald A. Gene expression and copy number profiling of follicular lymphoma biopsies from patients treated with first-line rituximab without chemotherapy. Leuk Lymphoma 2023; 64:1927-1937. [PMID: 37683053 DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2023.2240462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
Abstract
The Nordic Lymphoma Study Group has performed two randomized clinical trials with chemotherapy-free first-line treatment (rituximab +/- interferon) in follicular lymphoma (FL), with 73% of patients alive and 38% without any need of chemotherapy after 10.6 years median follow-up. In order to identify predictive markers, that may also serve as therapeutic targets, gene expression- and copy number profiles were obtained from 97 FL patients using whole genome microarrays. Copy number alterations (CNAs) were identified, e.g. by GISTIC. Cox Lasso Regression and Lasso logistic regression were used to determine molecular features predictive of time to next therapy (TTNT). A few molecular changes were associated with TTNT (e.g. increased expression of INPP5B, gains in 12q23/q24), but were not significant after adjusting for multiple testing. Our findings suggest that there are no strong determinants of patient outcome with respect to GE data and CNAs in FL patients treated with a chemotherapy-free regimen (i.e. rituximab +/- interferon).
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- E Leich
- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, Würzburg, Germany
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Computer Science, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine at Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pathology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine at Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, Würzburg, Germany
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Kotsis F, Bächle H, Altenbuchinger M, Dönitz J, Njipouombe Nsangou YA, Meiselbach H, Kosch R, Salloch S, Bratan T, Zacharias HU, Schultheiss UT. Expectation of clinical decision support systems: a survey study among nephrologist end-users. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2023; 23:239. [PMID: 37884906 PMCID: PMC10605935 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-023-02317-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease (CKD), a major public health problem with differing disease etiologies, leads to complications, comorbidities, polypharmacy, and mortality. Monitoring disease progression and personalized treatment efforts are crucial for long-term patient outcomes. Physicians need to integrate different data levels, e.g., clinical parameters, biomarkers, and drug information, with medical knowledge. Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) can tackle these issues and improve patient management. Knowledge about the awareness and implementation of CDSS in Germany within the field of nephrology is scarce. PURPOSE Nephrologists' attitude towards any CDSS and potential CDSS features of interest, like adverse event prediction algorithms, is important for a successful implementation. This survey investigates nephrologists' experiences with and expectations towards a useful CDSS for daily medical routine in the outpatient setting. METHODS The 38-item questionnaire survey was conducted either by telephone or as a do-it-yourself online interview amongst nephrologists across all of Germany. Answers were collected and analysed using the Electronic Data Capture System REDCap, as well as Stata SE 15.1, and Excel. The survey consisted of four modules: experiences with CDSS (M1), expectations towards a helpful CDSS (M2), evaluation of adverse event prediction algorithms (M3), and ethical aspects of CDSS (M4). Descriptive statistical analyses of all questions were conducted. RESULTS The study population comprised 54 physicians, with a response rate of about 80-100% per question. Most participants were aged between 51-60 years (45.1%), 64% were male, and most participants had been working in nephrology out-patient clinics for a median of 10.5 years. Overall, CDSS use was poor (81.2%), often due to lack of knowledge about existing CDSS. Most participants (79%) believed CDSS to be helpful in the management of CKD patients with a high willingness to try out a CDSS. Of all adverse event prediction algorithms, prediction of CKD progression (97.8%) and in-silico simulations of disease progression when changing, e. g., lifestyle or medication (97.7%) were rated most important. The spectrum of answers on ethical aspects of CDSS was diverse. CONCLUSION This survey provides insights into experience with and expectations of out-patient nephrologists on CDSS. Despite the current lack of knowledge on CDSS, the willingness to integrate CDSS into daily patient care, and the need for adverse event prediction algorithms was high.
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- Fruzsina Kotsis
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Department of Medicine IV - Nephrology and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
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- Competence Center Emerging Technologies, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
- Department of Medicine IV - Nephrology and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
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Buck L, Schmidt T, Feist M, Schwarzfischer P, Kube D, Oefner PJ, Zacharias HU, Altenbuchinger M, Dettmer K, Gronwald W, Spang R. Anomaly detection in mixed high-dimensional molecular data. Bioinformatics 2023; 39:btad501. [PMID: 37584673 PMCID: PMC10457663 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Revised: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023] Open
Abstract
MOTIVATION Mixed molecular data combines continuous and categorical features of the same samples, such as OMICS profiles with genotypes, diagnoses, or patient sex. Like all high-dimensional molecular data, it is prone to incorrect values that can stem from various sources for example the technical limitations of the measurement devices, errors in the sample preparation, or contamination. Most anomaly detection algorithms identify complete samples as outliers or anomalies. However, in most cases, not all measurements of those samples are erroneous but only a few one-dimensional features within the samples are incorrect. These one-dimensional data errors are continuous measurements that are either located outside or inside the normal ranges of their features but in both cases show atypical values given all other continuous and categorical features in the sample. Additionally, categorical anomalies can occur for example when the genotype or diagnosis was submitted wrongly. RESULTS We introduce ADMIRE (Anomaly Detection using MIxed gRaphical modEls), a novel approach for the detection and correction of anomalies in mixed high-dimensional data. Hereby, we focus on the detection of single (one-dimensional) data errors in the categorical and continuous features of a sample. For that the joint distribution of continuous and categorical features is learned by mixed graphical models, anomalies are detected by the difference between measured and model-based estimations and are corrected using imputation. We evaluated ADMIRE in simulation and by screening for anomalies in one of our own metabolic datasets. In simulation experiments, ADMIRE outperformed the state-of-the-art methods of Local Outlier Factor, stray, and Isolation Forest. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION All data and code is available at https://github.com/spang-lab/adadmire. ADMIRE is implemented in a Python package called adadmire which can be found at https://pypi.org/project/adadmire.
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- Lena Buck
- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Medicine Gottingen, 37075 Gottingen, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Medicine Gottingen, 37075 Gottingen, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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Rösler W, Altenbuchinger M, Baeßler B, Beissbarth T, Beutel G, Bock R, von Bubnoff N, Eckardt JN, Foersch S, Loeffler CML, Middeke JM, Mueller ML, Oellerich T, Risse B, Scherag A, Schliemann C, Scholz M, Spang R, Thielscher C, Tsoukakis I, Kather JN. An overview and a roadmap for artificial intelligence in hematology and oncology. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 2023; 149:7997-8006. [PMID: 36920563 PMCID: PMC10374829 DOI: 10.1007/s00432-023-04667-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Artificial intelligence (AI) is influencing our society on many levels and has broad implications for the future practice of hematology and oncology. However, for many medical professionals and researchers, it often remains unclear what AI can and cannot do, and what are promising areas for a sensible application of AI in hematology and oncology. Finally, the limits and perils of using AI in oncology are not obvious to many healthcare professionals. METHODS In this article, we provide an expert-based consensus statement by the joint Working Group on "Artificial Intelligence in Hematology and Oncology" by the German Society of Hematology and Oncology (DGHO), the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), and the Special Interest Group Digital Health of the German Informatics Society (GI). We provide a conceptual framework for AI in hematology and oncology. RESULTS First, we propose a technological definition, which we deliberately set in a narrow frame to mainly include the technical developments of the last ten years. Second, we present a taxonomy of clinically relevant AI systems, structured according to the type of clinical data they are used to analyze. Third, we show an overview of potential applications, including clinical, research, and educational environments with a focus on hematology and oncology. CONCLUSION Thus, this article provides a point of reference for hematologists and oncologists, and at the same time sets forth a framework for the further development and clinical deployment of AI in hematology and oncology in the future.
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- Wiebke Rösler
- Department for Medical Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department for Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- IMMS Institute for Microelectronics and Mechatronics Systems GmbH (NPO), Ilmenau, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Medical Center, University of Schleswig Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Medicine 1, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health (EFFZ), Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Medicine 1, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health (EFFZ), Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Medicine 1, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health (EFFZ), Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Medizinische Klinik 2-Haematology/Oncology, University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Computer Vision and Machine Learning Systems Group, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer and Data Sciences, Jena University Hospital - Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Sana Klinikum Offenbach, Offenbach, Germany
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- Department of Medicine 1, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
- Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health (EFFZ), Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
- Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Treiber H, Nilius-Eliliwi V, Seifert N, Vangala D, Wang M, Seidel S, Mika T, Marschner D, Zeremski V, Wurm-Kuczera R, Caillé L, Chapuy CI, Trümper L, Fischer T, Altenbuchinger M, Wulf GG, Illerhaus G, Dietrich S, Schroers R, Chapuy B. Treatment Strategies and Prognostic Factors in Secondary Central Nervous System Lymphoma: A Multicenter Study of 124 Patients. Hemasphere 2023; 7:e926. [PMID: 37492436 PMCID: PMC10365212 DOI: 10.1097/hs9.0000000000000926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Secondary central nervous system lymphoma (SCNSL) is a rare and difficult to treat type of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by systemic and central nervous system (CNS) disease manifestations. In this study, 124 patients with SCNSL intensively treated and with clinical long-term follow-up were included. Initial histopathology, as divided in low-grade, other aggressive, and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), was of prognostic significance. Overall response to induction treatment was a prognostic factor with early responding DLBCL-SCNSL in comparison to those non-responding experiencing a significantly better progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). However, the type of induction regime was not prognostic for survival. Following consolidating high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDT-ASCT), DLBCL-SCNSL patients had better median PFS and OS. The important role of HDT-ASCT was further highlighted by favorable responses and survival of patients not responding to induction therapy and by excellent results in patients with de novo DLBCL-SCNSL (65% long-term survival). SCNSL identified as a progression of disease within 6 months of initial systemic lymphoma presentation represented a previously not appreciated subgroup with particularly dismal outcome. This temporal stratification model of SCNSL diagnosis revealed CNS progression of disease within 6 months as a promising candidate prognosticator for future studies.
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- Hannes Treiber
- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Cancer Immunology, Charité -University Medical Center Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, Klinikum Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
- Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Cancer Immunology, Charité -University Medical Center Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Medicine V, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, Klinikum Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Medicine V, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
- Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Cancer Immunology, Charité -University Medical Center Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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Kränzlein M, Schmöckel SM, Geilfus CM, Schulze WX, Altenbuchinger M, Hrenn H, Roessner U, Zörb C. Lipid remodeling of contrasting maize ( Zea mays L.) hybrids under repeated drought. Front Plant Sci 2023; 14:1050079. [PMID: 37235021 PMCID: PMC10206266 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1050079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
Abstract
The role of recovery after drought has been proposed to play a more prominent role during the whole drought-adaption process than previously thought. Two maize hybrids with comparable growth but contrasting physiological responses were investigated using physiological, metabolic, and lipidomic tools to understand the plants' strategies of lipid remodeling in response to repeated drought stimuli. Profound differences in adaptation between hybrids were discovered during the recovery phase, which likely gave rise to different degrees of lipid adaptability to the subsequent drought event. These differences in adaptability are visible in galactolipid metabolism and fatty acid saturation patterns during recovery and may lead to a membrane dysregulation in the sensitive maize hybrid. Moreover, the more drought-tolerant hybrid displays more changes of metabolite and lipid abundance with a higher number of differences within individual lipids, despite a lower physiological response, while the responses in the sensitive hybrid are higher in magnitude but lower in significance on the level of individual lipids and metabolites. This study suggests that lipid remodeling during recovery plays a key role in the drought response of plants.
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- Markus Kränzlein
- Institute of Crop Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Core Facility Hohenheim, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia
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- Institute of Crop Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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Evers M, Schreder M, Stühmer T, Jundt F, Ebert R, Hartmann TN, Altenbuchinger M, Rudelius M, Kuric M, Rindt WD, Steinbrunn T, Langer C, Heredia-Guerrero SC, Einsele H, Bargou RC, Rosenwald A, Leich E. Prognostic value of extracellular matrix gene mutations and expression in multiple myeloma. Blood Cancer J 2023; 13:43. [PMID: 36959208 PMCID: PMC10036560 DOI: 10.1038/s41408-023-00817-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/25/2023] Open
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- Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- First Department of Medicine, Klinik Ottakring, Vienna, Austria
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Institute of Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, München, Germany
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- Department of Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
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Ben Guebila M, Wang T, Lopes-Ramos CM, Fanfani V, Weighill D, Burkholz R, Schlauch D, Paulson JN, Altenbuchinger M, Shutta KH, Sonawane AR, Lim J, Calderer G, van IJzendoorn DGP, Morgan D, Marin A, Chen CY, Song Q, Saha E, DeMeo DL, Padi M, Platig J, Kuijjer ML, Glass K, Quackenbush J. The Network Zoo: a multilingual package for the inference and analysis of gene regulatory networks. Genome Biol 2023; 24:45. [PMID: 36894939 PMCID: PMC9999668 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-02877-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Inference and analysis of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) require software that integrates multi-omic data from various sources. The Network Zoo (netZoo; netzoo.github.io) is a collection of open-source methods to infer GRNs, conduct differential network analyses, estimate community structure, and explore the transitions between biological states. The netZoo builds on our ongoing development of network methods, harmonizing the implementations in various computing languages and between methods to allow better integration of these tools into analytical pipelines. We demonstrate the utility using multi-omic data from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia. We will continue to expand the netZoo to incorporate additional methods.
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- Marouen Ben Guebila
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Present Address: Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Present Address: Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Present Address: CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Present Address: Genospace, LLC, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Present Address: Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Present Address: Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Present Address: Monoceros Biosystems, LLC, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Center for Molecular Medicine Norway, Nordic EMBL Partnership, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Present Address: Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Present Address: School of Biomedical Sciences, Hong Kong University, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Present Address: Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, 112, Taiwan
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Present Address: Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Molecular Medicine Norway, Nordic EMBL Partnership, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Leiden Center for Computational Oncology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
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Shutta KH, Weighill D, Burkholz R, Guebila M, DeMeo DL, Zacharias HU, Quackenbush J, Altenbuchinger M. DRAGON: Determining Regulatory Associations using Graphical models on multi-Omic Networks. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 51:e15. [PMID: 36533448 PMCID: PMC9943674 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac1157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
The increasing quantity of multi-omic data, such as methylomic and transcriptomic profiles collected on the same specimen or even on the same cell, provides a unique opportunity to explore the complex interactions that define cell phenotype and govern cellular responses to perturbations. We propose a network approach based on Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) that facilitates the joint analysis of paired omics data. This method, called DRAGON (Determining Regulatory Associations using Graphical models on multi-Omic Networks), calibrates its parameters to achieve an optimal trade-off between the network's complexity and estimation accuracy, while explicitly accounting for the characteristics of each of the assessed omics 'layers.' In simulation studies, we show that DRAGON adapts to edge density and feature size differences between omics layers, improving model inference and edge recovery compared to state-of-the-art methods. We further demonstrate in an analysis of joint transcriptome - methylome data from TCGA breast cancer specimens that DRAGON can identify key molecular mechanisms such as gene regulation via promoter methylation. In particular, we identify Transcription Factor AP-2 Beta (TFAP2B) as a potential multi-omic biomarker for basal-type breast cancer. DRAGON is available as open-source code in Python through the Network Zoo package (netZooPy v0.8; netzoo.github.io).
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- CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany,Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany,Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +49 551 39 61788; Fax: +49 551 39 61783;
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Schultheiss UT, Bächle H, Altenbuchinger M, Meiselbach H, Kosch R, Salloch S, Bratan T, Zacharias HU, Kotsis F. MO474: Expectation and Acceptance of a Clinical Decision Support Software by Nephrologist End-Users: The Ckdnapp Survey. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfac071.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major public health problem. CKD constitutes a complex disease due to differing underlying disease etiologies in each patient, which can in turn lead to many complications, comorbidities and polypharmacy. Monitoring disease progression and personalized treatment efforts are crucial for optimal long-term patient outcomes. In order to achieve this, physicians need to integrate different levels of data, e.g. clinical/demographic parameters, biomarkers and drug information, with medical knowledge. Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) can tackle these issues and improve patient management. ‘CKDNapp’ (CKD Nephrologist App), a CDSS application for nephrologists, based on mathematical models using machine-learning techniques, is currently being developed (https://ckdn.app). CKDNapp is intended to become a tool for daily clinical use. The nephrologists’ attitude towards any CDSS and CKDNapp in particular is of prime importance for its successful implementation into the daily medical routine. This survey investigates nephrologists’ experiences with CDSS in general and their expectations towards a reliable and useful application supporting their daily medical routine.
METHOD
CKDNapp survey is ongoing and has been conducted by telephone or as a do-it-yourself online interview in the form of a 38-item questionnaire. The answers of nephrologists from all regions across Germany were collected and analyzed using the Electronic Data Capture System, RedCap [1]. CKDNapp survey is divided into four modules: (1) experiences with CDSS, (2) expectations of a helpful CDSS, (3) evaluation of the planned contents of CKDNapp and (4) ethical aspects of CDSS (in collaboration with the BMBF-funded DESIREE project; https://www.desiree-forschung.de/desiree/index.php). All questions were based on a literature search for questionnaire items on CDSS [2, 3]. Response formats include the Likert scale or multiple choice. Descriptive statistical analyses of all questions were calculated.
RESULTS
In total, 44 participants took the survey, and completeness of answers ranged from 85% to 100%. Participants were aged 51–60 years old, male (64%) and had been working in nephrology outpatient clinics for a median of 12 years. Nephrologists treated a median of 35 patients/day. A total of 85% of participants reported never or rarely use a CDSS in patient care. The most frequently given reason for this was a lack of knowledge about CDSS. Nevertheless, 79% of participants believed CDSS to be helpful in the management of patients with CKD and 71% would be willing to use a CDSS given the chance to do so. When rating the importance of planned CKDNapp features, prediction of CKD progression (97%, Figure 1) and in-silico simulations of disease progression when changing, e.g. lifestyle or medication (97%) were most important, followed by the need for integration of available CKD guidelines (95%), prediction of acute kidney injury (95%), prediction of mortality risk (80%), and easy access to patient information (76%). The spectrum of answers to ethical aspects of CDSS (utility of CDSS for experienced versus inexperienced nephrologists, aspects of machine learning Fig. 2, discrimination of minority groups, etc.) was diverse.
CONCLUSION
This survey provides insights into experience with and expectations of outpatient nephrologists on CDSS in general and CKDNapp in particular. Despite the current lack of knowledge on CDSS, the willingness to integrate CDSS into daily patient care and the evaluation of planned CKDNapp features was high.
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- Ulla T Schultheiss
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center – University of Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany
- Department of Medicine IV – Nephrology and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center – University of Freiburg , Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center – University of Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) , Göttingen , Germany
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , Erlangen , Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) , Göttingen , Germany
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- Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hanover Medical School , Hanover , Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI , Karlsruhe , Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel , Kiel , Germany
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel , Kiel , Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center – University of Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany
- Department of Medicine IV – Nephrology and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center – University of Freiburg , Germany
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Schrod S, Schäfer A, Solbrig S, Lohmayer R, Gronwald W, Oefner PJ, Beißbarth T, Spang R, Zacharias HU, Altenbuchinger M. OUP accepted manuscript. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:i60-i67. [PMID: 35758796 PMCID: PMC9235492 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
MOTIVATION Estimating the effects of interventions on patient outcome is one of the key aspects of personalized medicine. Their inference is often challenged by the fact that the training data comprises only the outcome for the administered treatment, and not for alternative treatments (the so-called counterfactual outcomes). Several methods were suggested for this scenario based on observational data, i.e. data where the intervention was not applied randomly, for both continuous and binary outcome variables. However, patient outcome is often recorded in terms of time-to-event data, comprising right-censored event times if an event does not occur within the observation period. Albeit their enormous importance, time-to-event data are rarely used for treatment optimization. We suggest an approach named BITES (Balanced Individual Treatment Effect for Survival data), which combines a treatment-specific semi-parametric Cox loss with a treatment-balanced deep neural network; i.e. we regularize differences between treated and non-treated patients using Integral Probability Metrics (IPM). RESULTS We show in simulation studies that this approach outperforms the state of the art. Furthermore, we demonstrate in an application to a cohort of breast cancer patients that hormone treatment can be optimized based on six routine parameters. We successfully validated this finding in an independent cohort. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION We provide BITES as an easy-to-use python implementation including scheduled hyper-parameter optimization (https://github.com/sschrod/BITES). The data underlying this article are available in the CRAN repository at https://rdrr.io/cran/survival/man/gbsg.html and https://rdrr.io/cran/survival/man/rotterdam.html. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- S Schrod
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: or
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- Department of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg 93051, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg 93051, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy, Regensburg 93053, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg 93053, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg 93053, Germany
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- Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg 93053, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel 24105, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel 24105, Germany
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Schultheiss UT, Kosch R, Kotsis F, Altenbuchinger M, Zacharias HU. Chronic Kidney Disease Cohort Studies: A Guide to Metabolome Analyses. Metabolites 2021; 11:460. [PMID: 34357354 PMCID: PMC8304377 DOI: 10.3390/metabo11070460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Kidney diseases still pose one of the biggest challenges for global health, and their heterogeneity and often high comorbidity load seriously hinders the unraveling of their underlying pathomechanisms and the delivery of optimal patient care. Metabolomics, the quantitative study of small organic compounds, called metabolites, in a biological specimen, is gaining more and more importance in nephrology research. Conducting a metabolomics study in human kidney disease cohorts, however, requires thorough knowledge about the key workflow steps: study planning, sample collection, metabolomics data acquisition and preprocessing, statistical/bioinformatics data analysis, and results interpretation within a biomedical context. This review provides a guide for future metabolomics studies in human kidney disease cohorts. We will offer an overview of important a priori considerations for metabolomics cohort studies, available analytical as well as statistical/bioinformatics data analysis techniques, and subsequent interpretation of metabolic findings. We will further point out potential research questions for metabolomics studies in the context of kidney diseases and summarize the main results and data availability of important studies already conducted in this field.
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- Ulla T. Schultheiss
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; (U.T.S.); (F.K.)
- Department of Medicine IV—Nephrology and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Computational Biology, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany;
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; (U.T.S.); (F.K.)
- Department of Medicine IV—Nephrology and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany;
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- Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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Zacharias HU, Altenbuchinger M, Schultheiss UT, Raffler J, Kotsis F, Ghasemi S, Ali I, Kollerits B, Metzger M, Steinbrenner I, Sekula P, Massy ZA, Combe C, Kalra PA, Kronenberg F, Stengel B, Eckardt KU, Köttgen A, Schmid M, Gronwald W, Oefner PJ. A Predictive Model for Progression of CKD to Kidney Failure Based on Routine Laboratory Tests. Am J Kidney Dis 2021; 79:217-230.e1. [PMID: 34298143 DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2021.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 05/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE Stratification of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients at risk for progressing to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) requiring kidney replacement therapy (KRT) is important for clinical decision-making and trial enrollment. STUDY DESIGN Four independent prospective observational cohort studies. SETTING & PARTICIPANTS The development cohort was comprised of 4,915 CKD patients and three independent validation cohorts were comprised of a total of 3,063. Patients were followed-up for approximately five years. NEW PREDICTORS & ESTABLISHED PREDICTORS 22 demographic, anthropometric and laboratory variables commonly assessed in CKD patients. OUTCOMES Progression to ESKD requiring KRT. ANALYTICAL APPROACH A Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) Cox proportional hazards model was fit to select laboratory variables that best identified patients at high risk for ESKD. Model discrimination and calibration were assessed and compared against the 4-variable Tangri (T4) risk equation. Both used a resampling approach within the development cohort and in the validation cohorts using cause-specific concordance (C) statistics, net reclassification improvement, and calibration graphs. RESULTS The newly derived 6-variable (Z6) risk score included serum creatinine, albumin, cystatin C and urea, as well as hemoglobin and the urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio. Based on the resampling approach, Z6 achieved a median C value of 0.909 (95% CI, 0.868-0.937) at two years after the baseline visit, whereas the T4 achieved a median C value of 0.855 (95% CI, 0.799-0.915). In the three independent validation cohorts, Z6 C values were 0.894, 0.921, and 0.891, whereas the T4 C values were 0.882, 0.913, and 0.862. LIMITATIONS The Z6 was both derived and tested only in White European cohorts. CONCLUSIONS A new risk equation, based on six routinely available laboratory tests facilitates identification of patients with CKD who are at high risk of progressing to ESKD.
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- Helena U Zacharias
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany; Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
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- Chair of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; Computational Biology Group, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany; Renal Division, Department of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany; Renal Division, Department of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Salford Royal Hospital and University of Manchester, Salford M6 8HD, UK
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Genetics and Pharmacology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Versailles Saint Quentin, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Clinical Epidemiology Team, Villejuif, France
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Versailles Saint Quentin, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Clinical Epidemiology Team, Villejuif, France; Department of Nephrology, Ambroise Paré University Hospital, APHP, Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, France
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- Service de Néphrologie Transplantation Dialyse Aphérèse, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Inserm, U1026, Univ Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France
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- Salford Royal Hospital and University of Manchester, Salford M6 8HD, UK
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Genetics and Pharmacology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Versailles Saint Quentin, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Clinical Epidemiology Team, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Chair and Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Chair and Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
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Schulze WX, Altenbuchinger M, He M, Kränzlein M, Zörb C. Proteome profiling of repeated drought stress reveals genotype-specific responses and memory effects in maize. Plant Physiol Biochem 2021; 159:67-79. [PMID: 33341081 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Drought has become a major stress for agricultural productivity in temperate regions, such as central Europe. Thus, information on how crop plants respond to drought is important to develop tolerant hybrids and to ensure yield stability. Posttranscriptional regulation through changed protein abundances is an important mechanism of short-term response to stress events that has not yet been widely exploited in breeding strategies. Here, we investigated the response to repeated drought exposure of a tolerant and a sensitive maize hybrid in order to understand general protein abundance changes induced by singular drought or repeated drought events. In general, drought affected protein abundance of multiple pathways in the plant. We identified starch metabolism, aquaporin abundance, PSII proteins and histones as strongly associated with typical drought-induced phenotypes such as increased membrane leakage, osmolality or effects on stomatal conductance and assimilation rate. In addition, we found a strong effect of drought on nutrient assimilation, especially the sulfur metabolism. In general, pre-experience of mild drought before exposure to a more severe drought resulted in visible adaptations resulting in dampened phenotypes as well as lower magnitude of protein abundance changes.
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- Waltraud X Schulze
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany.
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- Research Group Computational Biology, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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Nordmo C, Glehr G, Altenbuchinger M, Spang R, Ziepert M, Horn H, Staiger AM, Ott G, Schmitz N, Held G, Einsele H, Topp M, Rosenwald A, Rauert-Wunderlich H. Identification of a miRNA based model to detect prognostic subgroups in patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma. Leuk Lymphoma 2020; 62:1107-1115. [PMID: 33353431 DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2020.1861268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
In order to differentiate prognostic subgroups of patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma, we analyzed the expression of 800 miRNAs with the NanoString nCounter human miRNA assay on a cohort of 228 FFPE samples of patients enrolled in the RICOVER-60 and MegaCHOEP trials. We identified significant miRNA signatures for overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) by LASSO-penalized linear Cox-regression. High expression levels of miR-130a-3p and miR-423-5p indicate a better prognosis, whereas high levels of miR-374b-5p, miR-590-5p, miR-186-5p, and miR-106b-5p increase patients' risk levels for OS. Regarding PFS high expression of miR-365a-5p in addition to the other two miRNAs improves the prognosis and high levels of miR374a-5p, miR-106b-5p, and miR-590-5p, connects with increased risk and poor prognosis. We identified miRNA signatures to subdivide patients into two different risk groups. These prognostic models may be used in risk stratification in future clinical trials and help making personalized therapy decisions.
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- Carmen Nordmo
- Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.,Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg and Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Mainfranken, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany and University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.,Department of Clinical Pathology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany and University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.,Department of Clinical Pathology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Medicine A, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
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- DSHNHL Studiensekretariat, Westpfalz Klinikum GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg and Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Mainfranken, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg and Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Mainfranken, Würzburg, Germany
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Altenbuchinger M, Weihs A, Quackenbush J, Grabe HJ, Zacharias HU. Gaussian and Mixed Graphical Models as (multi-)omics data analysis tools. Biochim Biophys Acta Gene Regul Mech 2020; 1863:194418. [PMID: 31639475 PMCID: PMC7166149 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2019.194418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Revised: 08/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) are tools to infer dependencies between biological variables. Popular applications are the reconstruction of gene, protein, and metabolite association networks. GGMs are an exploratory research tool that can be useful to discover interesting relations between genes (functional clusters) or to identify therapeutically interesting genes, but do not necessarily infer a network in the mechanistic sense. Although GGMs are well investigated from a theoretical and applied perspective, important extensions are not well known within the biological community. GGMs assume, for instance, multivariate normal distributed data. If this assumption is violated Mixed Graphical Models (MGMs) can be the better choice. In this review, we provide the theoretical foundations of GGMs, present extensions such as MGMs or multi-class GGMs, and illustrate how those methods can provide insight in biological mechanisms. We summarize several applications and present user-friendly estimation software. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Transcriptional Profiles and Regulatory Gene Networks edited by Dr. Dr. Federico Manuel Giorgi and Dr. Shaun Mahony.
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- Michael Altenbuchinger
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, MA Boston, 02115, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, MA Boston, 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases DZNE, Site Rostock/Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald, Germany.
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Görtler F, Schön M, Simeth J, Solbrig S, Wettig T, Oefner PJ, Spang R, Altenbuchinger M. Loss-Function Learning for Digital Tissue Deconvolution. J Comput Biol 2020; 27:342-355. [DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2019.0462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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- Franziska Görtler
- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Digital tissue deconvolution (DTD) estimates the cellular composition of a tissue from its bulk gene-expression profile. For this, DTD approximates the bulk as a mixture of cell-specific expression profiles. Different tissues have different cellular compositions, with cells in different activation states, and embedded in different environments. Consequently, DTD can profit from tailoring the deconvolution model to a specific tissue context. Loss-function learning adapts DTD to a specific tissue context, such as the deconvolution of blood, or a specific type of tumor tissue. We provide software for loss-function learning, for its validation and visualization, and for applying the DTD models to new data.
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- Marian Schön
- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Wagner M, Hänsel R, Reinke S, Richter J, Altenbuchinger M, Braumann UD, Spang R, Löffler M, Klapper W. Automated macrophage counting in DLBCL tissue samples: a ROF filter based approach. Biol Proced Online 2019; 21:13. [PMID: 31303867 PMCID: PMC6600891 DOI: 10.1186/s12575-019-0098-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/08/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND For analysis of the tumor microenvironment in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) tissue samples, it is desirable to obtain information about counts and distribution of different macrophage subtypes. Until now, macrophage counts are mostly inferred from gene expression analysis of whole tissue sections, providing only indirect information. Direct analysis of immunohistochemically (IHC) fluorescence stained tissue samples is confronted with several difficulties, e.g. high variability of shape and size of target macrophages and strongly inhomogeneous intensity of staining. Consequently, application of commercial software is largely restricted to very rough analysis modes, and most macrophage counts are still obtained by manual counting in microarrays or high power fields, thus failing to represent the heterogeneity of tumor microenvironment adequately. METHODS We describe a Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) filter based segmentation approach for whole tissue samples, combining floating intensity thresholding and rule-based feature detection. Method is validated against manual counts and compared with two commercial software kits (Tissue Studio 64, Definiens AG, and Halo, Indica Labs) and a straightforward machine-learning approach in a set of 50 test images. Further, the novel method and both commercial packages are applied to a set of 44 whole tissue sections. Outputs are compared with gene expression data available for the same tissue samples. Finally, the ROF based method is applied to 44 expert-specified tumor subregions for testing selection and subsampling strategies. RESULTS Among all tested methods, the novel approach is best correlated with manual count (0.9297). Automated detection of evaluation subregions proved to be fully reliable. Comparison with gene expression data obtained for the same tissue samples reveals only moderate to low correlation levels. Subsampling within tumor subregions is possible with results almost identical to full sampling. Mean macrophage size in tumor subregions is 152.5±111.3 μm2. CONCLUSIONS ROF based approach is successfully applied to detection of IHC stained macrophages in DLBCL tissue samples. The method competes well with existing commercial software kits. In difference to them, it is fully automated, externally repeatable, independent on training data and completely documented. Comparison with gene expression data indicates that image morphometry constitutes an independent source of information about antibody-polarized macrophage occurence and distribution.
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- Marcus Wagner
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig, Härtelstr. 16–18, Leipzig, 04107 Germany
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig, Härtelstr. 16–18, Leipzig, 04107 Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, University of Kiel/University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus 14, Kiel, 24105 Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, University of Kiel/University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus 14, Kiel, 24105 Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Am BioPark 9, Regensburg, 93053 Germany
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK), P. O. B. 30 11 66, Leipzig, 04251 Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI), Perlickstr. 1, Leipzig, 04103 Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Am BioPark 9, Regensburg, 93053 Germany
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig, Härtelstr. 16–18, Leipzig, 04107 Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, University of Kiel/University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus 14, Kiel, 24105 Germany
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Zacharias HU, Altenbuchinger M, Schultheiss UT, Samol C, Kotsis F, Poguntke I, Sekula P, Krumsiek J, Köttgen A, Spang R, Oefner PJ, Gronwald W. A Novel Metabolic Signature To Predict the Requirement of Dialysis or Renal Transplantation in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. J Proteome Res 2019; 18:1796-1805. [PMID: 30817158 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.8b00983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Identification of chronic kidney disease patients at risk of progressing to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is essential for treatment decision-making and clinical trial design. Here, we explored whether proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of blood plasma improves the currently best performing kidney failure risk equation, the so-called Tangri score. Our study cohort comprised 4640 participants from the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) study, of whom 185 (3.99%) progressed over a mean observation time of 3.70 ± 0.88 years to ESRD requiring either dialysis or transplantation. The original four-variable Tangri risk equation yielded a C statistic of 0.863 (95% CI, 0.831-0.900). Upon inclusion of NMR features by state-of-the-art machine learning methods, the C statistic improved to 0.875 (95% CI, 0.850-0.911), thereby outperforming the Tangri score in 94 out of 100 subsampling rounds. Of the 24 NMR features included in the model, creatinine, high-density lipoprotein, valine, acetyl groups of glycoproteins, and Ca2+-EDTA carried the highest weights. In conclusion, proton NMR-based plasma fingerprinting improved markedly the detection of patients at risk of developing ESRD, thus enabling enhanced patient treatment.
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- Helena U Zacharias
- Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München , Neuherberg 85764 , Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Biometry, Epidemiology, and Medical Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center , University of Freiburg , Freiburg 79106 , Germany.,Renal Division, Department of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center , University of Freiburg , Freiburg 79106 , Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Biometry, Epidemiology, and Medical Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center , University of Freiburg , Freiburg 79106 , Germany.,Renal Division, Department of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center , University of Freiburg , Freiburg 79106 , Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Biometry, Epidemiology, and Medical Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center , University of Freiburg , Freiburg 79106 , Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Biometry, Epidemiology, and Medical Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center , University of Freiburg , Freiburg 79106 , Germany
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- Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München , Neuherberg 85764 , Germany.,Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics , Weill Cornell Medicine , New York , New York 10065 , United States
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Biometry, Epidemiology, and Medical Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center , University of Freiburg , Freiburg 79106 , Germany
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Zacharias HU, Altenbuchinger M, Gronwald W. Statistical Analysis of NMR Metabolic Fingerprints: Established Methods and Recent Advances. Metabolites 2018; 8:E47. [PMID: 30154338 PMCID: PMC6161311 DOI: 10.3390/metabo8030047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Revised: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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In this review, we summarize established and recent bioinformatic and statistical methods for the analysis of NMR-based metabolomics. Data analysis of NMR metabolic fingerprints exhibits several challenges, including unwanted biases, high dimensionality, and typically low sample numbers. Common analysis tasks comprise the identification of differential metabolites and the classification of specimens. However, analysis results strongly depend on the preprocessing of the data, and there is no consensus yet on how to remove unwanted biases and experimental variance prior to statistical analysis. Here, we first review established and new preprocessing protocols and illustrate their pros and cons, including different data normalizations and transformations. Second, we give a brief overview of state-of-the-art statistical analysis in NMR-based metabolomics. Finally, we discuss a recent development in statistical data analysis, where data normalization becomes obsolete. This method, called zero-sum regression, builds metabolite signatures whose estimation as well as predictions are independent of prior normalization.
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- Helena U Zacharias
- Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Am Biopark 9, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Am Biopark 9, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
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Cho H, Berger B, Peng J, Galitzine C, Vitek O, Beltran PMJ, Cristea IM, Görtler F, Solbrig S, Wettig T, Oefner PJ, Spang R, Altenbuchinger M, Basso RS, Hochbaum D, Vandin F, Silverbush D, Cristea S, Yanovich G, Geiger T, Beerenwinkel N, Sharan R, Zhou Z, Luhmann N, Alikhan NF, Achtman M. Principles of Systems Biology, No. 31. Cell Syst 2018; 7:133-135. [PMID: 30138580 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2018.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
This month: selected work from the 2018 RECOMB meeting, organized by Ecole Polytechnique and held last April in Paris.
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Reinke S, Richter J, Fend F, Feller A, Hansmann ML, Hüttl K, Oschlies I, Ott G, Möller P, Rosenwald A, Stein H, Altenbuchinger M, Spang R, Klapper W. Round-robin test for the cell-of-origin classification of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma-a feasibility study using full slide staining. Virchows Arch 2018; 473:341-349. [PMID: 29730836 DOI: 10.1007/s00428-018-2367-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Revised: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is subdivided by gene expression analysis (GEP) into two molecular subtypes named germinal center B-cell-like (GCB) and activated B-cell-like (ABC) after their putative cell-of-origin (COO). Determination of the COO is considered mandatory in any new-diagnosed DLBCL, not otherwise specified according to the updated WHO classification. Despite the fact that pathologists are free to choose the method for COO classification, immunohistochemical (IHC) assays are most widely used. However, to the best of our knowledge, no round-robin test to evaluate the interlaboratory variability has been published so far. Eight hematopathology laboratories participated in an interlaboratory test for COO classification of 10 DLBCL tumors using the IHC classifier comprising the expression of CD10, BCL6, and MUM1 (so-called Hans classifier). The results were compared with GEP for COO signature and, in a subset, with results obtained by image analysis. In 7/10 cases (70%), at least seven laboratories assigned a given case to the same COO subtype (one center assessed one sample as not analyzable), which was in agreement with the COO subtype determined by GEP. The results in 3/10 cases (30%) revealed discrepancies between centers and/or between IHC and GEP subtype. Whereas the CD10 staining results were highly reproducible, staining for MUM1 was inconsistent in 50% and for BCL6 in 40% of cases. Image analysis of 16 slides stained for BCL6 (N = 8) and MUM1 (N = 8) of the two cases with the highest disagreement in COO classification were in line with the score of the pathologists in 14/16 stainings analyzed (87.5%). This study describes the first round-robin test for COO subtyping in DLBCL using IHC and demonstrates that COO classification using the Hans classifier yields consistent results among experienced hematopathologists, even when variable staining protocols are used. Data from this small feasibility study need to be validated in larger cohorts.
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- Sarah Reinke
- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24105, Kiel, Germany.
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24105, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Dr. Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus und Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24105, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus und Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg and Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, D-24105, Kiel, Germany
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Altenbuchinger M, Schwarzfischer P, Rehberg T, Reinders J, Kohler CW, Gronwald W, Richter J, Szczepanowski M, Masqué-Soler N, Klapper W, Oefner PJ, Spang R. Molecular signatures that can be transferred across different omics platforms. Bioinformatics 2018; 33:i333-i340. [PMID: 28881975 PMCID: PMC5870545 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Motivation Molecular signatures for treatment recommendations are well researched. Still it is challenging to apply them to data generated by different protocols or technical platforms. Results We analyzed paired data for the same tumors (Burkitt lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma) and features that had been generated by different experimental protocols and analytical platforms including the nanoString nCounter and Affymetrix Gene Chip transcriptomics as well as the SWATH and SRM proteomics platforms. A statistical model that assumes independent sample and feature effects accounted for 69–94% of technical variability. We analyzed how variability is propagated through linear signatures possibly affecting predictions and treatment recommendations. Linear signatures with feature weights adding to zero were substantially more robust than unbalanced signatures. They yielded consistent predictions across data from different platforms, both for transcriptomics and proteomics data. Similarly stable were their predictions across data from fresh frozen and matching formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded human tumor tissue. Availability and Implementation The R-package ‘zeroSum’ can be downloaded at https://github.com/rehbergT/zeroSum. Complete data and R codes necessary to reproduce all our results can be received from the authors upon request.
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- M Altenbuchinger
- Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel/Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel/Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel/Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel/Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Zacharias HU, Rehberg T, Mehrl S, Richtmann D, Wettig T, Oefner PJ, Spang R, Gronwald W, Altenbuchinger M. Scale-Invariant Biomarker Discovery in Urine and Plasma Metabolite Fingerprints. J Proteome Res 2017; 16:3596-3605. [PMID: 28825821 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Metabolomics data is typically scaled to a common reference like a constant volume of body fluid, a constant creatinine level, or a constant area under the spectrum. Such scaling of the data, however, may affect the selection of biomarkers and the biological interpretation of results in unforeseen ways. Here, we studied how both the outcome of hypothesis tests for differential metabolite concentration and the screening for multivariate metabolite signatures are affected by the choice of scale. To overcome this problem for metabolite signatures and to establish a scale-invariant biomarker discovery algorithm, we extended linear zero-sum regression to the logistic regression framework and showed in two applications to 1H NMR-based metabolomics data how this approach overcomes the scaling problem. Logistic zero-sum regression is available as an R package as well as a high-performance computing implementation that can be downloaded at https://github.com/rehbergT/zeroSum .
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- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg , Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg , Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
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Altenbuchinger M, Schwarzfischer P, Rehberg T, Reinders J, Kohler CW, Gronwald W, Richter J, Szczepanowski M, Masqué-Soler N, Klapper W, Oefner PJ, Spang R. Molecular signatures that can be transferred across different omics platforms. Bioinformatics 2017; 33:2790. [DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cascione L, Rinaldi A, Chiappella A, Kwee I, Ciccone G, Altenbuchinger M, Kohler C, Vitolo U, Inghirami G, Bertoni F. Diffuse large B cell lymphoma cell of origin by digital expression profiling in the REAL07 Phase 1-2 study. Br J Haematol 2017; 182:453-456. [PMID: 28737236 DOI: 10.1111/bjh.14817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Luciano Cascione
- USI Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Bellinzona.,Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona (IOSI).,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- USI Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Bellinzona
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- Ematologia, A.O.U. Citta della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- USI Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Bellinzona.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland.,Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Manno, Switzerland
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- Centro di Riferimento per l'Epidemiologia e la Prevenzione Oncologica in Piemonte (CPO-Piemonte), Turin, Italy
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Ematologia, A.O.U. Citta della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Science and Center for Experimental Research and Medical Studies (CeRMS), University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,Department of Pathology, NYU Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- USI Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Bellinzona.,Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona (IOSI)
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Szczepanowski M, Lange J, Kohler CW, Masque-Soler N, Zimmermann M, Aukema SM, Altenbuchinger M, Rehberg T, Mahn F, Siebert R, Spang R, Burkhardt B, Klapper W. Cell-of-origin classification by gene expression and MYC
-rearrangements in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of children and adolescents. Br J Haematol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/bjh.14812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Monika Szczepanowski
- Department of Pathology, Haematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry; University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein; Campus Kiel/Christian-Albrecht University; Kiel Germany
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- Paediatric Haematology and Oncology; University Hospital Muenster; NHL BFM Study Centre; Muenster Germany
- Translational Oncology; Department of Medicine A; University Hospital Muenster; Muenster Germany
- Cluster of Excellence EXC 1003; Cells in Motion; Muenster Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics; University of Regensburg; Regensburg Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Haematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry; University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein; Campus Kiel/Christian-Albrecht University; Kiel Germany
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- Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology; Hannover Medical School; Hannover Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Haematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry; University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein; Campus Kiel/Christian-Albrecht University; Kiel Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics; University of Regensburg; Regensburg Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics; University of Ulm; Ulm Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics; University of Regensburg; Regensburg Germany
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- Paediatric Haematology and Oncology; University Hospital Muenster; NHL BFM Study Centre; Muenster Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Haematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry; University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein; Campus Kiel/Christian-Albrecht University; Kiel Germany
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Altenbuchinger M, Rehberg T, Zacharias HU, Stämmler F, Dettmer K, Weber D, Hiergeist A, Gessner A, Holler E, Oefner PJ, Spang R. Reference point insensitive molecular data analysis. Bioinformatics 2016; 33:219-226. [PMID: 27634945 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2016] [Revised: 08/11/2016] [Accepted: 09/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
MOTIVATION In biomedicine, every molecular measurement is relative to a reference point, like a fixed aliquot of RNA extracted from a tissue, a defined number of blood cells, or a defined volume of biofluid. Reference points are often chosen for practical reasons. For example, we might want to assess the metabolome of a diseased organ but can only measure metabolites in blood or urine. In this case, the observable data only indirectly reflects the disease state. The statistical implications of these discrepancies in reference points have not yet been discussed. RESULTS Here, we show that reference point discrepancies compromise the performance of regression models like the LASSO. As an alternative, we suggest zero-sum regression for a reference point insensitive analysis. We show that zero-sum regression is superior to the LASSO in case of a poor choice of reference point both in simulations and in an application that integrates intestinal microbiome analysis with metabolomics. Moreover, we describe a novel coordinate descent based algorithm to fit zero-sum elastic nets. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The R-package "zeroSum" can be downloaded at https://github.com/rehbergT/zeroSum Moreover, we provide all R-scripts and data used to produce the results of this manuscript as Supplementary Material CONTACT: Michael.Altenbuchinger@ukr.de, Thorsten.Rehberg@ukr.de and Rainer.Spang@ukr.deSupplementary information: Supplementary material is available at Bioinformatics online.
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- M Altenbuchinger
- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.,Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Internal Medicine III, University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Internal Medicine III, University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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