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Pathway index models for construction of patient‐specific risk profiles
Author(s) -
Eng Kevin H.,
Wang Sijian,
Bradley William H.,
Rader Janet S.,
Kendziorski Christina
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.5641
Subject(s) - genomics , limiting , personalized medicine , computer science , computational biology , bioinformatics , medicine , genome , biology , genetics , gene , mechanical engineering , engineering
Statistical methods for variable selection, prediction, and classification have proven extremely useful in moving personalized genomics medicine forward, in particular, leading to a number of genomic‐based assays now in clinical use for predicting cancer recurrence. Although invaluable in individual cases, the information provided by these assays is limited. Most often, a patient is classified into one of very few groups (e.g., recur or not), limiting the potential for truly personalized treatment. Furthermore, although these assays provide information on which individuals are at most risk (e.g., those for which recurrence is predicted), they provide no information on the aberrant biological pathways that give rise to the increased risk. We have developed an approach to address these limitations. The approach models a time‐to‐event outcome as a function of known biological pathways, identifies important genomic aberrations, and provides pathway‐based patient‐specific assessments of risk. As we demonstrate in a study of ovarian cancer from The Cancer Genome Atlas project, the patient‐specific risk profiles are powerful and efficient characterizations useful in addressing a number of questions related to identifying informative patient subtypes and predicting survival. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.