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Quantitative Network Measures as Biomarkers for Classifying Prostate Cancer Disease States: A Systems Approach to Diagnostic Biomarkers

  • Matthias Dehmer*
  • , Laurin A. J. Mueller
  • , Frank Emmert-Streib
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    Identifying diagnostic biomarkers based on genomic features for an accurate disease classification is a problem of great importance for both, basic medical research and clinical practice. In this paper, we introduce quantitative network measures as structural biomarkers and investigate their ability for classifying disease states inferred from gene expression data from prostate cancer. We demonstrate the utility of our approach by using eigenvalue and entropy-based graph invariants and compare the results with a conventional biomarker analysis of the underlying gene expression data.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number77602
    Number of pages8
    JournalPLoS ONE
    Volume8
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 13 Nov 2013
    Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Funding

    Matthias Dehmer thanks the Austrian Science Funds for supporting this work (project P22029-N13). The authors also thank the 'Zentraler Informatikdienst' of the Technical University of Vienna for providing computing resources to perform large scale computations on the Phoenix Cluster. Also, Matthias Dehmer and Laurin Mueller thank the Standortagentur Tirol for supporting this work. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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    1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
      SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

    Keywords

    • GENE-EXPRESSION
    • TOPOLOGICAL INDEXES
    • INFORMATION CONTENT
    • ENTROPY MEASURES
    • GRAPHS
    • COMPLEXITY
    • DISCRIMINATION
    • CELLS

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