Journal
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 1984-1999Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbz167
Keywords
cooperative driver pathway; cancer gene; microRNA; data fusion; biological network
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [61873214, 61872300]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [XDJK2020B028, XDJK2019B024]
- Natural Science Foundation of CQ CSTC [cstc2018jcyjAX0228]
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology [FCC/1/1976-19-01]
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CDPathway is a novel approach that can identify cooperative driver pathways by quantifying driver weights and constructing heterogeneous networks, which effectively identify candidate driver genes and reconstruct pathway interaction networks.
Discovering driver pathways is an essential step to uncover the molecular mechanism underlying cancer and to explore precise treatments for cancer patients. However, due to the difficulties of mapping genes to pathways and the limited knowledge about pathway interactions, most previous work focus on identifying individual pathways. In practice, two (or even more) pathways interplay and often cooperatively trigger cancer. In this study, we proposed a new approach called CDPathway to discover cooperative driver pathways. First, CDPathway introduces a driver impact quantification function to quantify the driver weight of each gene. CDPathway assumes that genes with larger weights contribute more to the occurrence of the target disease and identifies them as candidate driver genes. Next, it constructs a heterogeneous network composed of genes, miRNAs and pathways nodes based on the known intra(inter)-relations between them and assigns the quantified driver weights to gene-pathway and gene-miRNA relational edges. To transfer driver impacts of genes to pathway interaction pairs, CDPathway collaboratively factorizes the weighted adjacency matrices of the heterogeneous network to explore the latent relations between genes, miRNAs and pathways. After this, it reconstructs the pathway interaction network and identifies the pathway pairs with maximal interactive and driver weights as cooperative driver pathways. Experimental results on the breast, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma and ovarian cancer data from The Cancer Genome Atlas show that CDPathway can effectively identify candidate driver genes [area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of >= 0.9] and reconstruct the pathway interaction network (AUROC of>0.9), and it uncovers much more known (potential) driver genes than other competitive methods. In addition, CDPathway identifies 150% more driver pathways and 60% more potential cooperative driver pathways than the competing methods. The code of CDPathway is available at http://mlda.swu.edu.cn/codes.php?name=CDPathway.
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