Identification of pathway and gene markers using enhanced directed random walk for multiclass cancer expression data

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Main Author: Nies, Hui Wen
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2024
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Online Access:http://openscience.utm.my/handle/123456789/995
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spelling oai:openscience.utm.my:123456789/9952024-02-15T09:00:23Z Identification of pathway and gene markers using enhanced directed random walk for multiclass cancer expression data Nies, Hui Wen Gene expression—Research—Methodology Cancer—Diagnosis—Data processing Tumor markers—Research Thesis (PhD.) Cancer markers play a significant role in the diagnosis of the origin of cancers and in the detection of cancers from initial treatments. This is a challenging task owing to the heterogeneity nature of cancers. Identification of these markers could help in improving the survival rate of cancer patients, in which dedicated treatment can be provided according to the diagnosis or even prevention. Previous investigations show that the use of pathway topology information could help in the detection of cancer markers from gene expression. Such analysis reduces its complexity from thousands of genes to a few hundreds of pathways. However, most of the existing methods group different cancer subtypes into just disease samples, and consider all pathways contribute equally in the analysis process. Meanwhile, the interaction between multiple genes and the genes with missing edges has been ignored in several other methods, and hence could lead to the poor performance of the identification of cancer markers from gene expression. Thus, this research proposes enhanced directed random walk to identify pathway and gene markers for multiclass cancer gene expression data. Firstly, an improved pathway selection with analysis of variances (ANOVA) that enables the consideration of multiple cancer subtypes is performed, and subsequently the integration of k-mean clustering and average silhouette method in the directed random walk that considers the interaction of multiple genes is also conducted. The proposed methods are tested on benchmark gene expression datasets (breast, lung, and skin cancers) and biological pathways. The performance of the proposed methods is then measured and compared in terms of classification accuracy and area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC). The results indicate that the proposed methods are able to identify a list of pathway and gene markers from the datasets with better classification accuracy and AUC. The proposed methods have improved the classification performance in the range of between 1% and 35% compared with existing methods. Cell cycle and p53 signaling pathway were found significantly associated with breast, lung, and skin cancers, while the cell cycle was highly enriched with squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. Faculty of Engineering - School of Computing 2024-02-15T00:51:17Z 2024-02-15T00:51:17Z 2020 Thesis Dataset http://openscience.utm.my/handle/123456789/995 en application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
spellingShingle Gene expression—Research—Methodology
Cancer—Diagnosis—Data processing
Tumor markers—Research
Nies, Hui Wen
Identification of pathway and gene markers using enhanced directed random walk for multiclass cancer expression data
title Identification of pathway and gene markers using enhanced directed random walk for multiclass cancer expression data
title_full Identification of pathway and gene markers using enhanced directed random walk for multiclass cancer expression data
title_fullStr Identification of pathway and gene markers using enhanced directed random walk for multiclass cancer expression data
title_full_unstemmed Identification of pathway and gene markers using enhanced directed random walk for multiclass cancer expression data
title_short Identification of pathway and gene markers using enhanced directed random walk for multiclass cancer expression data
title_sort identification of pathway and gene markers using enhanced directed random walk for multiclass cancer expression data
topic Gene expression—Research—Methodology
Cancer—Diagnosis—Data processing
Tumor markers—Research
url http://openscience.utm.my/handle/123456789/995
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