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BioMed Central, BMC Bioinformatics, 1(10), 2009

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-384

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Regularized estimation of large-scale gene association networks using graphical Gaussian models

Journal article published in 2009 by Nicole Kraemer, Nicole Krämer ORCID, Juliane Schäfer, Juliane Schaefer, Anne-Laure Boulesteix
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Abstract

Graphical Gaussian models are popular tools for the estimation of (undirected) gene association networks from microarray data. A key issue when the number of variables greatly exceeds the number of samples is the estimation of the matrix of partial correlations. Since the (Moore-Penrose) inverse of the sample covariance matrix leads to poor estimates in this scenario, standard methods are inappropriate and adequate regularization techniques are needed. In this article, we investigate a general framework for combining regularized regression methods with the estimation of Graphical Gaussian models. This framework includes various existing methods as well as two new approaches based on ridge regression and adaptive lasso, respectively. These methods are extensively compared both qualitatively and quantitatively within a simulation study and through an application to six diverse real data sets. In addition, all proposed algorithms are implemented in the R package "parcor", available from the R repository CRAN. ; Comment: added additional experiments