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RISK ANALYSIS
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/risa.13924
Keywords
dose-response; elastic net; Poisson regression; Salmonella enterica; weighted modeling
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative [2020-67017-30785]
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Estimating microbial dose-response is important for food safety risk assessment. This study aims to develop a machine learning model that considers the weights of Salmonella gene expression in hosts associated with illness response. An elastic net-based weighted Poisson regression method was used to identify significant genes related to illness response.
Estimating microbial dose-response is an important aspect of a food safety risk assessment. In recent years, there has been considerable interest to advance these models with potential incorporation of gene expression data. The aim of this study was to develop a novel machine learning model that considers the weights of expression of Salmonella genes that could be associated with illness, given exposure, in hosts. Here, an elastic net-based weighted Poisson regression method was proposed to identify Salmonella enterica genes that could be significantly associated with the illness response, irrespective of serovar. The best-fit elastic net model was obtained by 10-fold cross-validation. The best-fit elastic net model identified 33 gene expression-dose interaction terms that added to the predictability of the model. Of these, nine genes associated with Salmonella metabolism and virulence were found to be significant by the best-fit Poisson regression model (p < 0.05). This method could improve or redefine dose-response relationships for illness from relative proportions of significant genes from a microbial genetic dataset, which would help in refining endpoint and risk estimations.
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