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IMIX: a multivariate mixture model approach to association analysis through multi-omics data integration

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MOTIVATION Integrative genomic analysis is a powerful tool used to study the biological mechanisms underlying a complex disease or trait across multiplatform high-dimensional data, such as DNA methylation, copy number… Click to show full abstract

MOTIVATION Integrative genomic analysis is a powerful tool used to study the biological mechanisms underlying a complex disease or trait across multiplatform high-dimensional data, such as DNA methylation, copy number variation, and gene expression. It is common to perform large-scale genome-wide association analysis of an outcome for each data type separately and combine the results ad hoc, leading to loss of statistical power and uncontrolled overall false discovery rate (FDR). RESULTS We propose a multivariate mixture model (IMIX) framework that integrates multiple types of genomic data and allows modeling of inter-data-type correlations. We investigated the across-data-type FDR control in IMIX and demonstrated lower misclassification rates at controlled overall FDR than established individual data type analysis strategies, such as the Benjamini-Hochberg FDR control, the q-value, and the local FDR control by extensive simulations. IMIX features statistically principled model selection, FDR control, and computational efficiency. Applications to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data provided novel multi-omics insights into the genes and mechanisms associated with the luminal and basal subtypes of bladder cancer and the prognosis of pancreatic cancer. AVAILABILITY We have implemented our method in R package "IMIX" available at https://github.com/ziqiaow/IMIX, as well as CRAN soon. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Keywords: fdr; analysis; association analysis; model; imix; data type

Journal Title: Bioinformatics
Year Published: 2021

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