Bayesian Variable Selection for Probit Mixed Models Applied to Gene Selection

Details Bayesian Variable Selection for Probit Mixed Models Applied to Gene Selection Bayesian Variable Selection for Probit Mixed Models Applied to Gene Selection

2011-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/1101.4577v2

Bayesian Analysis 6, 2 (2011) 209-230

Statistics

Methodology

Scientific paper

10.1214/11-BA607

In computational biology, gene expression datasets are characterized by very few individual samples compared to a large number of measurements per sample. Thus, it is appealing to merge these datasets in order to increase the number of observations and diversify the data, allowing a more reliable selection of genes relevant to the biological problem. Besides, the increased size of a merged dataset facilitates its re-splitting into training and validation sets. This necessitates the introduction of the dataset as a random effect. In this context, extending a work of Lee et al. (2003), a method is proposed to select relevant variables among tens of thousands in a probit mixed regression model, considered as part of a larger hierarchical Bayesian model. Latent variables are used to identify subsets of selected variables and the grouping (or blocking) technique of Liu (1994) is combined with a Metropolis-within-Gibbs algorithm (Robert and Casella 2004). The method is applied to a merged dataset made of three individual gene expression datasets, in which tens of thousands of measurements are available for each of several hundred human breast cancer samples. Even for this large dataset comprised of around 20000 predictors, the method is shown to be efficient and feasible. As an illustration, it is used to select the most important genes that characterize the estrogen receptor status of patients with breast cancer.

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