Xie Guo-Bo, Xu Hao-Jie, Gu Guo-Sheng, Lin Zhi-Yi, Yu Jun-Rui, Chen Rui-Bin
School of Computer Science, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510000, China.
Interdiscip Sci. 2025 Jun 23. doi: 10.1007/s12539-025-00717-3.
Emerging evidence highlights long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as pivotal regulators demonstrating significant linkages with diverse human pathologies through expression dynamics and regulatory cascades. This research endeavors to establish an algorithm for forecasting the associations between lncRNAs and diseases based on multi-kernel learning-driven weighted nuclear norm regularization (MLWNNR). Specifically, our framework first uses a kernel learning algorithm centered on k-nearest neighbors to integrate multi-similarity kernels. Then, we construct a heterogeneous lncRNA-disease associations network utilizing similarity information and confirm lncRNA-disease associations. Finally, we adopt weighted nuclear norm regularization to complete the heterogeneous network to derive the final association prediction score. MLWNNR achieves impressive performance on three datasets and outperforms six representative models in the comparative experiments, which demonstrates its robustness and excellent generalization abilities. Furthermore, in case studies centered on three common human diseases, the majority of the hypothesized connections are corroborated by experimental literature. MLWNNR is a reliable approach for inferring lncRNA-disease associations, according to the experimental results.
新出现的证据表明,长链非编码RNA(lncRNA)作为关键调节因子,通过表达动态和调控级联反应与多种人类疾病存在显著联系。本研究致力于建立一种基于多核学习驱动的加权核范数正则化(MLWNNR)算法,用于预测lncRNA与疾病之间的关联。具体而言,我们的框架首先使用以k近邻为中心的核学习算法来整合多相似性核。然后,我们利用相似性信息构建一个异质lncRNA-疾病关联网络,并确认lncRNA-疾病关联。最后,我们采用加权核范数正则化来完善异质网络,以得出最终的关联预测分数。MLWNNR在三个数据集上取得了令人印象深刻的性能,在对比实验中优于六个代表性模型,这证明了其稳健性和出色的泛化能力。此外,在以三种常见人类疾病为中心的案例研究中,大多数假设的联系都得到了实验文献的证实。根据实验结果,MLWNNR是一种推断lncRNA-疾病关联的可靠方法。