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Glaser B, Nikolov I, Chubb D, et al. Analyses of single marker and pairwise effects of candidate loci for rheumatoid arthritis using logistic regression and random forests. BMC Proc. 2007;1:S54doi: 10.1186/1753-6561-1-s1-s54.
Glaser, B., Nikolov, I., Chubb, D., Hamshere, M. L., Segurado, R., Moskvina, V., & Holmans, P. (2007). Analyses of single marker and pairwise effects of candidate loci for rheumatoid arthritis using logistic regression and random forests. BMC proceedings, 1S54. https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-6561-1-s1-s54
Glaser, Beate, et al. "Analyses of single marker and pairwise effects of candidate loci for rheumatoid arthritis using logistic regression and random forests." BMC proceedings vol. 1 (2007): S54. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-6561-1-s1-s54
Glaser B, Nikolov I, Chubb D, Hamshere ML, Segurado R, Moskvina V, Holmans P. Analyses of single marker and pairwise effects of candidate loci for rheumatoid arthritis using logistic regression and random forests. BMC Proc. 2007;1:S54. doi: 10.1186/1753-6561-1-s1-s54. Epub 2007 Dec 18. PMID: 18466554; PMCID: PMC2367457.
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BMC Proc. 2007;1:S54. doi: 10.1186/1753-6561-1-s1-s54. Epub 2007 Dec 18.

Analyses of single marker and pairwise effects of candidate loci for rheumatoid arthritis using logistic regression and random forests.

BMC proceedings

Beate Glaser, Ivan Nikolov, Daniel Chubb, Marian L Hamshere, Ricardo Segurado, Valentina Moskvina, Peter Holmans

Affiliations

  1. Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Unit, and Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, Wales, CF14 4XN, UK. [email protected]

PMID: 18466554 PMCID: PMC2367457 DOI: 10.1186/1753-6561-1-s1-s54

Abstract

Using parametric and nonparametric techniques, our study investigated the presence of single locus and pairwise effects between 20 markers of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 (GAW15) North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium (NARAC) candidate gene data set (Problem 2), analyzing 463 independent patients and 855 controls. Specifically, our work examined the correspondence between logistic regression (LR) analysis of single-locus and pairwise interaction effects, and random forest (RF) single and joint importance measures. For this comparison, we selected small but stable RFs (500 trees), which showed strong correlations (r~0.98) between their importance measures and those by RFs grown on 5000 trees. Both RF importance measures captured most of the LR single-locus and pairwise interaction effects, while joint importance measures also corresponded to full LR models containing main and interaction effects. We furthermore showed that RF measures were particularly sensitive to data imputation. The most consistent pairwise effect on rheumatoid arthritis was found between two markers within MAP3K7IP2/SUMO4 on 6q25.1, although LR and RFs assigned different significance levels.Within a hypothetical two-stage design, pairwise LR analysis of all markers with significant RF single importance would have reduced the number of possible combinations in our small data set by 61%, whereas joint importance measures would have been less efficient for marker pair reduction. This suggests that RF single importance measures, which are able to detect a wide range of interaction effects and are computationally very efficient, might be exploited as pre-screening tool for larger association studies. Follow-up analysis, such as by LR, is required since RFs do not indicate high-risk genotype combinations.

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