Uncovering critical transitions and molecule mechanisms in disease progressions using Gaussian graphical optimal transport
Abstract Understanding disease progression is crucial for detecting critical transitions and finding trigger molecules, facilitating early diagnosis interventions. However, the high dimensionality of data and the lack of aligned samples across disease stages have posed challenges in addressing these...
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| description | Abstract Understanding disease progression is crucial for detecting critical transitions and finding trigger molecules, facilitating early diagnosis interventions. However, the high dimensionality of data and the lack of aligned samples across disease stages have posed challenges in addressing these tasks. We present a computational framework, Gaussian Graphical Optimal Transport (GGOT), for analyzing disease progressions. The proposed GGOT uses Gaussian graphical models, incorporating protein interaction networks, to characterize the data distributions at different disease stages. Then we use population-level optimal transport to calculate the Wasserstein distances and transport between stages, enabling us to detect critical transitions. By analyzing the per-molecule transport distance, we quantify the importance of each molecule and identify trigger molecules. Moreover, GGOT predicts the occurrence of critical transitions in unseen samples and visualizes the disease progression process. We apply GGOT to the simulation dataset and six disease datasets with varying disease progression rates to substantiate its effectiveness. Compared to existing methods, our proposed GGOT exhibits superior performance in detecting critical transitions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cfb4d716e6e84c55a88a28b2aa94db442025-08-20T03:07:44ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Biology2399-36422025-04-018111810.1038/s42003-025-07995-zUncovering critical transitions and molecule mechanisms in disease progressions using Gaussian graphical optimal transportWenbo Hua0Ruixia Cui1Heran Yang2Jingyao Zhang3Chang Liu4Jian Sun5School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong UniversityKey Laboratory of Surgical Critical Care and Life Support (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Ministry of EducationSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong UniversityKey Laboratory of Surgical Critical Care and Life Support (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Ministry of EducationKey Laboratory of Surgical Critical Care and Life Support (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Ministry of EducationSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong UniversityAbstract Understanding disease progression is crucial for detecting critical transitions and finding trigger molecules, facilitating early diagnosis interventions. However, the high dimensionality of data and the lack of aligned samples across disease stages have posed challenges in addressing these tasks. We present a computational framework, Gaussian Graphical Optimal Transport (GGOT), for analyzing disease progressions. The proposed GGOT uses Gaussian graphical models, incorporating protein interaction networks, to characterize the data distributions at different disease stages. Then we use population-level optimal transport to calculate the Wasserstein distances and transport between stages, enabling us to detect critical transitions. By analyzing the per-molecule transport distance, we quantify the importance of each molecule and identify trigger molecules. Moreover, GGOT predicts the occurrence of critical transitions in unseen samples and visualizes the disease progression process. We apply GGOT to the simulation dataset and six disease datasets with varying disease progression rates to substantiate its effectiveness. Compared to existing methods, our proposed GGOT exhibits superior performance in detecting critical transitions.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07995-z |
| spellingShingle | Wenbo Hua Ruixia Cui Heran Yang Jingyao Zhang Chang Liu Jian Sun Uncovering critical transitions and molecule mechanisms in disease progressions using Gaussian graphical optimal transport Communications Biology |
| title | Uncovering critical transitions and molecule mechanisms in disease progressions using Gaussian graphical optimal transport |
| title_full | Uncovering critical transitions and molecule mechanisms in disease progressions using Gaussian graphical optimal transport |
| title_fullStr | Uncovering critical transitions and molecule mechanisms in disease progressions using Gaussian graphical optimal transport |
| title_full_unstemmed | Uncovering critical transitions and molecule mechanisms in disease progressions using Gaussian graphical optimal transport |
| title_short | Uncovering critical transitions and molecule mechanisms in disease progressions using Gaussian graphical optimal transport |
| title_sort | uncovering critical transitions and molecule mechanisms in disease progressions using gaussian graphical optimal transport |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07995-z |
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