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This study compared different methods for selecting genes in meta-analyses of biological datasets, including selecting hub genes based on network connectivity and standard meta-analysis based on statistical significance. The authors found that (1) selecting intramodular hub genes (highly connected within relevant modules) led to gene lists with stronger functional enrichment compared to whole-network hub genes or standard meta-analysis, but (2) standard marginal meta-analysis generally resulted in gene lists that validated more strongly in independent data than network-based methods. Overall, selecting intramodular hubs provided biologically informative gene lists, while marginal meta-analysis had an advantage for validation.
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- 1. When Is HubGene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis? Peter Langfelder, Paul S. Mischel, and Steve Horvath 2013
- 2. Protein interaction networkof Caenorhabditis elegans Almaas E J Exp Biol 2007;210:1548-1558 ©2007 by The Company of Biologists Ltd
- 3. Hub, Module, Bottleneck b.Red indicates higher expression and blue indicates lower expression. Larger nodes are major bridges between different parts of a network c. Major hub Law et al. 2013 Systems virology: host-directed approaches to viral pathogenesis and drug targeting
- 4. Background • Highly connectedhub nodes are central to network architecture • Protein knockout experiments have shown that hub proteins tend to be essential for survival – Yeast, Fly, Worm • There is a debate about hub importance, but authors argue hubs are often not important Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 5. The Main Question •Does hub gene selection lead to more meaningful gene lists than a standard statistical analysis based on significance testing? Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 6. rankPvalue: Scale Method 1.Scales the individual importance measures in each study to mean 0 and variance 1 2. Averages the statistics and relies on the central limit theorem to approximate the null distribution of the resulting meta-analysis statistic Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 7. rankPvalue: Rank Method 1.If assumptions of central limit theorem are not met, then use the Rank method. 2. Replaces the values of importance measures by rankings 3. Rankings are divided so that the resulting value lies in the unit interval 4. Sum of ranking is meta analysis test statistic 5. Distribution can be estimated from convoluting the distributions of K independent uniformly distributed variables Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 8. Table 1. Overviewof meta-analysis methods used in this article. Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 9. Question 1 • Arewhole-network hug genes relevant or should one exclusively focus on intramodular hubs? – Correlation network applications show that one should focus on intramodular hubs in trait-related modules Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 10. Weighted Correlation Network Analysis(WGCNA) Finding consensus modules and intramodular hubs • Can calibrate weighted networks before combining them • It is straightforward to combine weighted networks across independent data sets • It provides module eigengenes that can be used to relate modules to sample traits • It affords measures of module membership, which can be used for finding hub genes in consensus modules • A trait-related consensus module is selected across the individual data sets • Variables with highest overall module membership are identified Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 11. Table 2. Overviewof data sets used in this article. Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 12. Biological Data Sets •Genes associated with adenocarcinoma survival time in human expression data • CpGs hypermethylated with age in human blood and brain methylation data • Genes positively correlated with total cholesterol in mouse liver expression data Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 13. Figure S1: LungCancer Data
- 14. Figure S2: LungCancer Data • Each row corresponds to one module identified in the consensus module analysis • First column shows meta-analysis Z statistic and corresponding p-value
- 15. Question 4 • Donetwork-based gene selection strategies lead to gene lists that are biologically more informative than those based on standard marginal approaches? – Yes, gene selection based on intramodular connectivity leads to biologically more informative gene lists. In contrast, whole-network connectivity leads to the least informative gene lists Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 16. Figure 1. Meta-analysisof module membership leads to gene lists with stronger functional enrichment. Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 17. Figure 2. Marginalmeta-analysis tends to lead to gene lists with better validation in independent data. Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 18. Figure 3. Simulationstudies of gene screening success of meta- analysis methods. Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
- 19. Key Findings 1. Hubgenes defined with respect to whole- network connectivity are often uninteresting in correlation networks constructed from data from higher organisms 2. Selecting intramodular hubs in a relevant module often leads to gene lists with cleaner biological annotation. 3. Marginal meta-analysis leads to superior validation success of gene-trait associations in 2 of 3 applications Langfelder P, Mischel PS, Horvath S (2013) When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061505 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0061505
Editor's Notes
- #14 Figure S1. Gene clustering tree based on the consensus Topological Overlap similarity across 8 adenocarcinoma (lung cancer) data sets. Each short vertical line (“leaf” of the tree) corresponds to a single gene. Branches of the clustering tree group together genes with high consensus similarity and hence define modules. The modules are indicated by colors below the clustering tree (line Modules). Grey color corresponds to genes not assigned to any of the modules. In this analysis, likely because of the poor reproducibility among the 8 data sets, we only find 5 small modules and most genes remain unassigned. The 8 color rows below the module indicator indicate the gene significance, defined as the correlation of survival time deviance with gene expression. Green color denotes negative correlation with survival deviance (i.e., the gene over-expression is associated with lower risk of death) while red color denotes positive correlation with survival deviance (i.e., the gene over-expression is associated with higher risk of death). This representation makes apparent the poor reproducibility of gene significance for survival time between the 8 data sets.
- #15 Figure S2. Module significance for survival deviance in consensus analysis of 8 adenocarcinoma expression data sets. Each row of this table corresponds to one module identified in the consensus module analysis. Modules are labeled by the module number and (where appropriate) a GO-derived functional label. Columns 2–9 give correlations between the survival time deviance and the module eigengenes and the associated p-values. The first column shows the meta-analysis Z statistic and the corresponding p-value. We observe that module 2 exhibits a relatively weak but consistent association with survival time deviance across the 8 data sets. The meta-analysis Z score and p-value for module 2 are significant. The significant association and cell cycle-related functional annotation We note that while module 5 also attains nominal significance at the 0.05 level, a Bonferroni correction for the number of tested modules (5) would render the p-value non-significant. Functional enrichment analysis (Supplementary Table ??) did not reveal strong enrichment in biologically plausible categories, and we do not consider this module in the following.