Quantitative Network Measures as Biomarkers for Classifying Prostate Cancer Disease States: A Systems Approach to Diagnostic Biomarkers |
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| Authors: | Matthias Dehmer Laurin A J Mueller Frank Emmert-Streib |
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| Institution: | 1. UMIT, Institute for Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Hall in Tyrol, Austria.; 2. Computational Biology and Machine Learning Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen''s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.; University of Catania, Italy, |
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| Abstract: | Identifying diagnostic biomarkers based on genomic features for an accurate disease classification is a problem of great importance for both, basic medical research and clinical practice. In this paper, we introduce quantitative network measures as structural biomarkers and investigate their ability for classifying disease states inferred from gene expression data from prostate cancer. We demonstrate the utility of our approach by using eigenvalue and entropy-based graph invariants and compare the results with a conventional biomarker analysis of the underlying gene expression data. |
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