A mixture model-based discriminate analysis for identifying ordered transcription factor binding site pairs in gene promoters directly regulated by estrogen receptor-α

Lang Li, Alfred S.L. Cheng, Victor X. Jin, Henry H. Paik, Meiyun Fan, Xiaoman Li, Wei Zhang, Jason Robarge, Curtis Balch, Ramana V. Davuluri, Sun Kim, Tim H.M. Huang, Kenneth P. Nephew

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Abstract

Motivation: To detect and select patterns of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) which distinguish genes directly regulated by estrogen receptor-α (ERα), we developed an innovative mixture model-based discriminate analysis for identifying ordered TFBS pairs. Results: Biologically, our proposed new algorithm clearly suggesTFBSs are not randomly distributed within ERα target promoters (P-value < 0.001). The up-regulated targets significantly (P-value < 0.01) possess TFBS pairs, (DBP, MYC), (DBP, MYC/MAX heterodimer), (DBP, USF2) and (DBP, MYOGENIN); and down-regulated ERα target genes significantly (P-value < 0.01) possess TFBS pairs, such as (DBP, c-ETS1-68), (DBP, USF2) and (DBP, MYOGENIN). Statistically, our proposed mixture model-based discriminate analysis can simultaneously perform TFBS pattern recognition, TFBS pattern selection, and target class prediction; such integrative power cannot be achieved by current methods.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2210-2216
Number of pages7
JournalBioinformatics
Volume22
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 15 2006
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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