Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 27, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27144443
Keywords
MiRNA-disease association; graph neural network; meta-path
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [202103000003]
- [21974153]
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In this study, a computational method was developed to identify associations between microRNAs and diseases. By constructing a multi-module heterogeneous network and learning features with GAT, the method achieved outstanding prediction performance using SVM.
Cumulative research reveals that microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in many critical biological processes including cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. It is of great significance to figure out the associations between miRNAs and human diseases that are the basis for finding biomarkers for diagnosis and targets for treatment. To overcome the time-consuming and labor-intensive problems faced by traditional experiments, a computational method was developed to identify potential associations between miRNAs and diseases based on the graph attention network (GAT) with different meta-path mode and support vector (SVM). Firstly, we constructed a multi-module heterogeneous network based on the meta-path and learned the latent features of different modules by GAT. Secondly, we found the average of the latent features with weight to obtain a final node representation. Finally, we characterized miRNA-disease-association pairs with the node representation and trained an SVM to recognize potential associations. Based on the five-fold cross-validation and benchmark datasets, the proposed method achieved an area under the precision-recall curve (AUPR) of 0.9379 and an area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.9472. The results demonstrate that our method has an outstanding practical application performance and can provide a reference for the discovery of new biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
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