Bayesian Clustering of Transcription Factor Binding Motifs

Details Bayesian Clustering of Transcription Factor Binding Motifs Bayesian Clustering of Transcription Factor Binding Motifs

2006-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/math/0610655v1

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Statistics Theory

Submitted to the Journal of the American Statistical Association

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Genes are often regulated in living cells by proteins called transcription factors (TFs) that bind directly to short segments of DNA in close proximity to specific genes. These binding sites have a conserved nucleotide appearance, which is called a motif. Several recent studies of transcriptional regulation require the reduction of a large collection of motifs into clusters based on the similarity of their nucleotide composition. We present a principled approach to this clustering problem based upon a Bayesian hierarchical model that accounts for both within- and between-motif variability. We use a Dirichlet process prior distribution that allows the number of clusters to vary and we also present a novel generalization that allows the core width of each motif to vary. This clustering model is implemented, using a Gibbs sampling strategy, on several collections of transcription factor motif matrices. Our clusters provide a means by which to organize transcription factors based on binding motif similarities, which can be used to reduce motif redundancy within large databases such as JASPAR and TRANSFAC. Finally, our clustering procedure has been used in combination with discovery of evolutionarily-conserved motifs to predict co-regulated genes. An alternative to our Dirichlet process prior distribution is explored but shows no substantive difference in the clustering results for our datasets. Our Bayesian clustering model based on the Dirichlet process has several advantages over traditional clustering methods that could make our procedure appropriate and useful for many clustering applications.

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