DISIS: prediction of drug response through an iterative sure independence screening

PLoS One. 2015 Mar 20;10(3):e0120408. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120408. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Prediction of drug response based on genomic alterations is an important task in the research of personalized medicine. Current elastic net model utilized a sure independence screening to select relevant genomic features with drug response, but it may neglect the combination effect of some marginally weak features. In this work, we applied an iterative sure independence screening scheme to select drug response relevant features from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) dataset. For each drug in CCLE, we selected up to 40 features including gene expressions, mutation and copy number alterations of cancer-related genes, and some of them are significantly strong features but showing weak marginal correlation with drug response vector. Lasso regression based on the selected features showed that our prediction accuracies are higher than those by elastic net regression for most drugs.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology
  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Datasets as Topic
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
  • Humans
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Neoplasms / genetics
  • Pharmacogenetics* / methods
  • Precision Medicine* / methods
  • Reproducibility of Results

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents

Associated data

  • GEO/GSE36139

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31100953, 31100912 and 11201306), the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (12YZ088 and 13YZ065), the Program of Shanghai Normal University (DZL121, SK201207) and the Supporting Program for Young College Teachers of Shanghai. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.