DL-ADR: a novel deep learning model for classifying genomic variants into adverse drug reactions.

Journal: BMC medical genomics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Genomic variations are associated with the metabolism and the occurrence of adverse reactions of many therapeutic agents. The polymorphisms on over 2000 locations of cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYP) due to many factors such as ethnicity, mutations, and inheritance attribute to the diversity of response and side effects of various drugs. The associations of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), the internal pharmacokinetic patterns and the vulnerability of specific adverse reactions become one of the research interests of pharmacogenomics. The conventional genomewide association studies (GWAS) mainly focuses on the relation of single or multiple SNPs to a specific risk factors which are a one-to-many relation. However, there are no robust methods to establish a many-to-many network which can combine the direct and indirect associations between multiple SNPs and a serial of events (e.g. adverse reactions, metabolic patterns, prognostic factors etc.). In this paper, we present a novel deep learning model based on generative stochastic networks and hidden Markov chain to classify the observed samples with SNPs on five loci of two genes (CYP2D6 and CYP1A2) respectively to the vulnerable population of 14 types of adverse reactions.

Authors

  • Zhaohui Liang
    Computational Health Research Branch, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • Jimmy Xiangji Huang
    School of Information Technology, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J1P3, Canada. jhuang@yorku.ca.
  • Xing Zeng
    Second School of Clinic Medicine, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510120, China. zengxing-china@163.com.
  • Gang Zhang