| Title: | Gene-gene interaction detection with deep learning |
| Journal: | Communications Biology |
| Published: | 12 Nov 2022 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36371468/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04186-y |
| URL: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-04186-y.pdf |
Publication 8072
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Abstract
The extent to which genetic interactions affect observed phenotypes is generally unknown because current interaction detection approaches only consider simple interactions between top SNPs of genes. We introduce an open-source framework for increasing the power of interaction detection by considering all SNPs within a selected set of genes and complex interactions between them, beyond only the currently considered multiplicative relationships. In brief, the relation between SNPs and a phenotype is captured by a neural network, and the interactions are quantified by Shapley scores between hidden nodes, which are gene representations that optimally combine information from the corresponding SNPs. Additionally, we design a permutation procedure tailored for neural networks to assess the significance of interactions, which outperformed existing alternatives on simulated datasets with complex interactions, and in a cholesterol study on the UK Biobank it detected nine interactions which replicated on an independent FINRISK dataset.6 Authors
- Tianyu Cui
- Khaoula El Mekkaoui
- Jaakko Reinvall
- Aki S. Havulinna
- Pekka Marttinen
- Samuel Kaski
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