College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
College of Computer Science and Technology, Hunan Institute of Technology, 421002, Hengyang, China.
Sci Rep. 2018 Apr 24;8(1):6481. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-24532-7.
microRNAs (miRNAs) mutation and maladjustment are related to the occurrence and development of human diseases. Studies on disease-associated miRNA have contributed to disease diagnosis and treatment. To address the problems, such as low prediction accuracy and failure to predict the relationship between new miRNAs and diseases and so on, we design a Laplacian score of graphs to calculate the global similarity of networks and propose a Global Similarity method based on a Two-tier Random Walk for the prediction of miRNA-disease association (GSTRW) to reveal the correlation between miRNAs and diseases. This method is a global approach that can simultaneously predict the correlation between all diseases and miRNAs in the absence of negative samples. Experimental results reveal that this method is better than existing approaches in terms of overall prediction accuracy and ability to predict orphan diseases and novel miRNAs. A case study on GSTRW for breast cancer and conlon cancer is also conducted, and the majority of miRNA-disease association can be verified by our experiment. This study indicates that this method is feasible and effective.
微小 RNA(miRNAs)突变和失调与人类疾病的发生和发展有关。对疾病相关 miRNA 的研究有助于疾病的诊断和治疗。为了解决预测精度低、无法预测新 miRNA 与疾病之间的关系等问题,我们设计了图的拉普拉斯得分来计算网络的全局相似性,并提出了一种基于两层随机游走的全局相似性方法(GSTRW)来预测 miRNA-疾病关联,以揭示 miRNA 和疾病之间的相关性。该方法是一种全局方法,可以在没有负样本的情况下同时预测所有疾病和 miRNA 之间的相关性。实验结果表明,该方法在整体预测准确性和预测孤儿疾病和新 miRNA 的能力方面优于现有方法。我们还对 GSTRW 进行了乳腺癌和结肠癌的案例研究,实验验证了大部分 miRNA-疾病的关联。本研究表明该方法是可行且有效的。