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Machine learning identifies a compact gene set for monitoring the circadian clock in human blood

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Medicine, February 2017
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Title
Machine learning identifies a compact gene set for monitoring the circadian clock in human blood
Published in
Genome Medicine, February 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13073-017-0406-4
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Authors

Jacob J. Hughey

Abstract

The circadian clock and the daily rhythms it produces are crucial for human health, but are often disrupted by the modern environment. At the same time, circadian rhythms may influence the efficacy and toxicity of therapeutics and the metabolic response to food intake. Developing treatments for circadian dysfunction, as well as optimizing the daily timing of treatments for other health conditions, will require a simple and accurate method to monitor the molecular state of the circadian clock. Here we used a recently developed method called ZeitZeiger to predict circadian time (CT, time of day according to the circadian clock) from genome-wide gene expression in human blood. In cross-validation on 498 samples from 60 individuals across three publicly available datasets, ZeitZeiger predicted CT in single samples with a median absolute error of 2.1 h. The predictor trained on all 498 samples used 15 genes, only two of which are part of the core circadian clock. By then applying ZeitZeiger to 475 additional samples from the same three datasets, we quantified how the circadian clock in the blood was affected by various perturbations to the sleep-wake and light-dark cycles. Finally, we extended ZeitZeiger (1) to handle intra-individual variation by making predictions based on multiple samples taken a known time apart, and (2) to handle inter-individual variation by personalizing predictions based on samples from the respective individual. Each of these strategies improved prediction of CT by ~20%. Our results are an important step towards precision circadian medicine. In addition, our generalizable extensions to ZeitZeiger may be applicable to the growing number of biological datasets that contain multiple observations per individual.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Unknown 96 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 23%
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Bachelor 11 11%
Student > Master 8 8%
Other 6 6%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 27 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 11%
Computer Science 7 7%
Neuroscience 4 4%
Other 17 17%
Unknown 32 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 89. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 October 2017.
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