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Semi-supervised GAN creates synthetic genetic data for disease prediction.
ENN method uses expectile regression for genetic data analysis of complex diseases.
Efficiently infers graph edges from genetic similarity data in landscape genetics.
Novel tests for genetic independence in high-dimensional data.
Genetic sequence data are well described by hidden Markov models (HMMs) in which latent states correspond to clusters of similar mutation patterns. Theory from statistical genetics suggests that these HMMs are nonhomogeneous (their transition probabilities vary along the chromosome) and have large support for self tran…
Discovering causal genetic variants from large genetic association studies poses many difficult challenges. Assessing which genetic markers are involved in determining trait status is a computationally demanding task, especially in the presence of gene-gene interactions. A non-parametric Bayesian approach in the form o…
A genetic algorithm improves multivariate kernel density estimation.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have emerged as a rich source of genetic clues into disease biology, and they have revealed strong genetic correlations among many diseases and traits. Some of these genetic correlations may reflect causal relationships. We developed a method to quantify causal relationships betwe…
Study investigates how preprocessing, feature selection, and model selection affect performance on imbalanced genetic data.
In this paper, we propose a framework for automatic classification of patients from multimodal genetic and brain imaging data by optimally combining them. Additive models with unadapted penalties (such as the classical group lasso penalty or -multiple kernel learning) treat all modalities in the same manner and ca…
Imaging genetic research has essentially focused on discovering unique and co-association effects, but typically ignoring to identify outliers or atypical objects in genetic as well as non-genetics variables. Identifying significant outliers is an essential and challenging issue for imaging genetics and multiple source…
Genetic algorithms optimize neural networks for cosmological data analysis.
New algorithm reconstructs genealogies from genetic data.
This paper improves dynamic hedging accuracy using genetic programming to forecast implied volatilities.
Given genetic variations and various phenotypical traits, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) features, we consider two important and related tasks in biomedical research: i)to select genetic and phenotypical markers for disease diagnosis and ii) to identify associations between genetic and phenotypical data. Thes…
As the amount and complexity of genetic information increases it is necessary that we explore some efficient ways of handling these data. This study takes the "divide and conquer" approach for analyzing high dimensional genomic data. Our aims include reducing the dimensionality of the problem that has to be dealt one a…
The widely used genetic pleiotropic analysis of multiple phenotypes are often designed for examining the relationship between common variants and a few phenotypes. They are not suited for both high dimensional phenotypes and high dimensional genotype (next-generation sequencing) data. To overcome these limitations, we …
The central aim in this paper is to address variable selection questions in nonlinear and nonparametric regression. Motivated by statistical genetics, where nonlinear interactions are of particular interest, we introduce a novel and interpretable way to summarize the relative importance of predictor variables. Methodol…
2 Diabetes is a leading worldwide public health concern, and its increasing prevalence has significant health and economic importance in all nations. The condition is a multifactorial disorder with a complex aetiology. The genetic determinants remain largely elusive, with only a handful of identified candidate genes. G…
While linear mixed model (LMM) has shown a competitive performance in correcting spurious associations raised by population stratification, family structures, and cryptic relatedness, more challenges are still to be addressed regarding the complex structure of genotypic and phenotypic data. For example, geneticists hav…
Summary statistics of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) teach causal relationship between millions of genetic markers and tens and thousands of phenotypes. However, underlying biological mechanisms are yet to be elucidated. We can achieve necessary interpretation of GWAS in a causal mediation framework, looking to…
Advances of modern sensing and sequencing technologies generate a deluge of high dimensional space-temporal physiological and next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. Physiological traits are observed either as continuous random functions, or on a dense grid and referred to as function-valued traits. Both physiological a…
A genetic algorithm with community detection improves feature selection accuracy.
Enhances genetic programming for stock alpha discovery with warm start and structural constraints.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have achieved great success in the genetic study of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Collaborative imaging genetics studies across different research institutions show the effectiveness of detecting genetic risk factors. However, the high dimensionality of GWAS data poses significant cha…
EB-VAE combines tumor growth and dropout data for personalized treatment response modeling.
Gradient boosting enhances existing Mendelian models for genetic disease risk prediction.
For precision medicine and personalized treatment, we need to identify predictive markers of disease. We focus on Alzheimer's disease (AD), where magnetic resonance imaging scans provide information about the disease status. By combining imaging with genome sequencing, we aim at identifying rare genetic markers associa…
Zoetrope Genetic Programming improves symbolic regression performance.
New methods improve genetic studies of complex diseases.
BayesMR estimates causal effects and directionality from genetic data.
Deep learning and genetic algorithms speed up cosmological Bayesian inference.
Deep models improve GWAS by identifying genetic interactions.
Big data applications, such as medical imaging and genetics, typically generate datasets that consist of few observations n on many more variables p, a scenario that we denote as p>>n. Traditional data processing methods are often insufficient for extracting information out of big data. This calls for the development o…
We analyze large, multi-dimensional, sparse counting data sets, finding unsupervised groups to provide unique insights into genetic data. We create gene and biological pathway groups based on patients' variants to find common risk factors for four common types of cancer (breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal) and auti…
This paper presents performance analysis of hybrid model comprise of concordance and Genetic Programming (GP) to forecast financial market with some existing models. This scheme can be used for in depth analysis of stock market. Different measures of concordances such as Kendalls Tau, Ginis Mean Difference, Spearmans R…
Paper addresses class imbalance in disk SMART dataset using GANs and genetic algorithms.
Study uses machine learning to predict future health from various health data types.
We introduce GeNet, a method for shotgun metagenomic classification from raw DNA sequences that exploits the known hierarchical structure between labels for training. We provide a comparison with state-of-the-art methods Kraken and Centrifuge on datasets obtained from several sequencing technologies, in which dataset s…
Genetic algorithms have been widely used in many practical optimization problems. Inspired by natural selection, operators, including mutation, crossover and selection, provide effective heuristics for search and black-box optimization. However, they have not been shown useful for deep reinforcement learning, possibly …
A test for neural networks identifies genetic associations.
New method uses DNN for genetic variant identification, controlling randomness and improving interpretability.
Fast and cheaper next generation sequencing technologies will generate unprecedentedly massive and highly-dimensional genomic and epigenomic variation data. In the near future, a routine part of medical record will include the sequenced genomes. A fundamental question is how to efficiently extract genomic and epigenomi…
This research develops an evolutionary approach to discover non-Gaussian stochastic dynamical systems.
Develops methods for GWAS of high dimensional phenotypes using summary statistics.
In this contribution we describe an approach to evolve composite covariance functions for Gaussian processes using genetic programming. A critical aspect of Gaussian processes and similar kernel-based models such as SVM is, that the covariance function should be adapted to the modeled data. Frequently, the squared expo…
In statistical genetics an important task involves building predictive models for the genotype-phenotype relationships and thus attribute a proportion of the total phenotypic variance to the variation in genotypes. Numerous models have been proposed to incorporate additive genetic effects into models for prediction or …
Optimizing a neural network's performance is a tedious and time taking process, this iterative process does not have any defined solution which can work for all the problems. Optimization can be roughly categorized into - Architecture and Hyperparameter optimization. Many algorithms have been devised to address this pr…