TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling three-dimensional chromosome structures using gene expression data
AU - Xiao, Guanghua
AU - Wang, Xinlei
AU - Khodursky, Arkady B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Guanghua Xiao is Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Clinical Sciences, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390 (E-mail: Guanghua.Xiao@UTSouthwestern.edu). Xinlei Wang is Associate Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275 (E-mail: swang@smu.edu). Arkady B. Khodursky is Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 (E-mail: khodu001@umn.edu). This work was supported by NSF grants DMS-0907562, DMS-0906545, NIDA grant 1R21DA027592. The authors thank the associate editor and the referees for their valuable comments.
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - Recent genomic studies have shown that significant chromosomal spatial correlation exists in gene expression of many organisms. Interestingly, coexpression has been observed among genes separated by a fixed interval in specific regions of a chromosome chain, which is likely caused by three-dimensional (3D) chromosome folding structures. Modeling such spatial correlation explicitly may lead to essential understandings of 3D chromosome structures and their roles in transcriptional regulation. In this paper, we explore chromosomal spatial correlation induced by 3D chromosome structures, and propose a hierarchical Bayesian method based on helical structures to formally model and incorporate the correlation into the analysis of gene expression microarray data. It is the first study to quantify and infer 3D chromosome structures in vivo using expression microarrays. Simulation studies show computing feasibility of the proposed method and that, under the assumption of helical chromosome structures, it can lead to precise estimation of structural parameters and gene expression levels. Real data applications demonstrate an intriguing biological phenomenon that functionally associated genes, which are far apart along the chromosome chain, are brought into physical proximity by chromosomal folding in 3D space to facilitate their coexpression. It leads to important biological insight into relationship between chromosome structure and function.
AB - Recent genomic studies have shown that significant chromosomal spatial correlation exists in gene expression of many organisms. Interestingly, coexpression has been observed among genes separated by a fixed interval in specific regions of a chromosome chain, which is likely caused by three-dimensional (3D) chromosome folding structures. Modeling such spatial correlation explicitly may lead to essential understandings of 3D chromosome structures and their roles in transcriptional regulation. In this paper, we explore chromosomal spatial correlation induced by 3D chromosome structures, and propose a hierarchical Bayesian method based on helical structures to formally model and incorporate the correlation into the analysis of gene expression microarray data. It is the first study to quantify and infer 3D chromosome structures in vivo using expression microarrays. Simulation studies show computing feasibility of the proposed method and that, under the assumption of helical chromosome structures, it can lead to precise estimation of structural parameters and gene expression levels. Real data applications demonstrate an intriguing biological phenomenon that functionally associated genes, which are far apart along the chromosome chain, are brought into physical proximity by chromosomal folding in 3D space to facilitate their coexpression. It leads to important biological insight into relationship between chromosome structure and function.
KW - Bayesian hierarchical models
KW - Chromosome folding structures
KW - Chromosome looping
KW - Gene regulation
KW - Helical structures
KW - Spatial correlation
KW - Spatial modeling
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U2 - 10.1198/jasa.2010.ap09504
DO - 10.1198/jasa.2010.ap09504
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79954508289
SN - 0162-1459
VL - 106
SP - 61
EP - 72
JO - Journal of the American Statistical Association
JF - Journal of the American Statistical Association
IS - 493
ER -