Subset-Based Ant Colony Optimisation for the Discovery of Gene-Gene Interactions in Genome Wide Association Studies
Sapin, E; Keedwell, EC; Frayling, T
Date: 10 July 2013
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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In this paper an ant colony optimisation approach for the discovery of gene-gene interactions in genome-wide association study (GWAS) data is proposed. The subset-based approach includes a novel encoding mechanism and tournament selection to analyse full scale GWAS data consisting of hundreds of thousands of variables to discover ...
In this paper an ant colony optimisation approach for the discovery of gene-gene interactions in genome-wide association study (GWAS) data is proposed. The subset-based approach includes a novel encoding mechanism and tournament selection to analyse full scale GWAS data consisting of hundreds of thousands of variables to discover associations between combinations of small DNA changes and Type II diabetes. The method is tested on a large established database from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium and is shown to discover combinations that are statistically significant and biologically relevant within reasonable computational time.
Computer Science
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
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