Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

11-20-2012

Subjects

Bioinformatics, Genetics, System theory

Abstract

Reconstructability Analysis (RA) is an information- and graph-theory-based method which has been successfully used in previous genomic studies. Here we apply it to genetic (14 SNPs) and non-genetic (Education, Age, Gender) data on Alzheimer disease in a well-characterized Case/Control sample of 424 individuals. We confirm the importance of APOE as a predictor of the disease, and identify one non-genetic factor, Education, and two SNPs, one in BINI and the other in SORCS1, as likely disease predictors. SORCS1 appears to be a common risk factor for people with or without APOE. We also identify a possible interaction effect between Education and BINI. Methodologically, we introduce and use to advantage some more powerful features of RA not used in prior genomic studies.

Keywords: Reconstructability Analysis, Alzheimer Disease, Genetics, Bioinformatics, OCCAM

Rights

This is the accepted version of paper presented at an IEEE meeting. The final version is available here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6505196

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42745

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