DNF : A differential network flow method to identify rewiring drivers for gene regulatory networks

Differential network analysis has become an important approach in identifying driver genes in development and disease. However, most studies capture only local features of the underlying gene-regulatory network topology. These approaches are vulnerable to noise and other changes which mask driver-gene activity. Therefore, methods are urgently needed which can separate the impact of true regulatory elements from stochastic changes and downstream effects. We propose the differential network flow (DNF) method to identify key regulators of progression in development or disease. Given the network representation of consecutive biological states, DNF quantifies the essentiality of each node by differences in the distribution of network flow, which are capable of capturing comprehensive topological differences from local to global feature domains. DNF achieves more accurate driver-gene identification than other state-of-the-art methods when applied to four human datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas and three single-cell RNA-seq datasets of murine neural and hematopoietic differentiation. Furthermore, we predict key regulators of crosstalk between separate networks underlying both neuronal differentiation and the progression of neurodegenerative disease, among which APP is predicted as a driver gene of neural stem cell differentiation. Our method is a new approach for quantifying the essentiality of genes across networks of different biological states.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:410

Enthalten in:

Neurocomputing - 410(2020) vom: 14. Okt., Seite 202-210

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xie, Jiang [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Fuzhang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jiao [VerfasserIn]
Karikomi, Mathew [VerfasserIn]
Yin, Yiting [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Jiamin [VerfasserIn]
Wen, Tieqiao [VerfasserIn]
Nie, Qing [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Differential network analysis
Information entropy
Journal Article
Network flow
Network topology
Neuronal differentiation

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Date Revised 02.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.neucom.2020.05.028

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM325743142