| Reference : In Silico prediction of transcription factor binding sites by probabilistic models |
| Dissertations and theses : Doctoral thesis | |||
| Life sciences : Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/15459 | |||
| In Silico prediction of transcription factor binding sites by probabilistic models | |
| English | |
Wienecke-Baldacchino, Anke  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Life Science Research Unit] | |
| 28-Sep-2012 | |
| University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg | |
| Docteur en Biologie | |
| Balling, Rudi | |
| [en] UniPROBE ; PWM ; Chow-Liu Trees ; Ensemble of Trees ; Regulatory SNPs ; Family Trio Data ; Differential Binding Detection ; Machine Learning | |
| [en] The characterization of in silico detected transcription factor binding sites represents a fundamental problem in the field of regulatory gene expression analysis. Several approaches have been proposed to model DNA-protein-interactions, composed by two main classes: qualitative models considering a consensus sequence and quantitative models providing a measure of binding affinity. The latter can be further subdivided in models assuming an independent contribution of the nucleotides forming a potential binding site and more flexible ones implicating a positional interdependence.
In this work the applicability of three probabilistic models to predict transcription factor binding sites has been investigated: (i) the simple position weight matrix (PWM), assuming independence, and two flexible models capturing positional interdependencies represented by a (ii) Chow-Liu Tree and (iii) Ensemble of Trees model. The training and validation of the models on the Mus musculus subset of the UniPROBE database revealed that complex models provide a better predictive power suggesting a high amount of transcription factors binding motifs being affected by positional interdependencies. Additionally, numerous transcription factors were detected, for which the Ensemble of Trees model outperformed both, the Chow-Liu Tree and PWM model. The UniPROBE-based trained models have been applied in a biological context - the prediction of differential binding profiles in five different ChIP-seq samples, followed by the detection of causative regulatory SNPs. The chosen set-up involved family trio data, meaning genotype data from a family composed of father, mother and daughter, providing internal validation. The models provide strong power to correctly classify true negatives in an independent biological sample, represented by a high specificity. The applied approach to detect causative regulatory SNPs, resulted in a candidate list of 20 SNPs. Those gain strong support by epigenetic markers and both, model-based predicted binding affinity of the comprising binding site and significant p-values, describing the effect of the nucleotide exchange. | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/15459 |
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