DualGCN-GE: integration of spatiotemporal representations from whole-blood expression data with dual-view graph convolution network to identify Parkinson’s disease subtypes

Abstract Background As a typical type of neurodegenerative disorders, Parkinson’s disease(PD) is characterized by significant clinical and progression heterogeneity. Based on gene expression data, reliable detection of PACE subtypes in Parkinson’s disease(PD-PACE) has played a crucial role in addres...

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Main Authors: Wei Zhang, Zeqi Xu, Ruochen Yu, Mingfeng Jiang, Qi Dai
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Published: BMC 2025-08-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-025-06181-6
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author Wei Zhang
Zeqi Xu
Ruochen Yu
Mingfeng Jiang
Qi Dai
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Zeqi Xu
Ruochen Yu
Mingfeng Jiang
Qi Dai
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description Abstract Background As a typical type of neurodegenerative disorders, Parkinson’s disease(PD) is characterized by significant clinical and progression heterogeneity. Based on gene expression data, reliable detection of PACE subtypes in Parkinson’s disease(PD-PACE) has played a crucial role in addressing the heterogeneity of this disease. Established machine learning approaches generally adopt single-view learning schemes and employ temporal features underlying RNA sequencing data. Topological features, which are associated with gene graphs and cell graphs, were disregarded in previous works. Actually, Parkinson-specific gene graphs(PGG) could act as topological features to capture structural changes of molecular networks. Results Under the framework of dual-view graph learning, this study proposes a DualGCN-GE method to identify multiple PD-PACE subtypes from whole-blood expression data, with regards of progression velocity. This DualGCN-GE method has proposed dual-view graph convolution network(GCN) to integrate temporal and topological features underlying whole-blood expression data, thus detecting PD-PACE subtypes. Experimental analysis of three benchmark datasets has validated the effectiveness and advantage of the DualGCN-GE method in the disease subtype detection task. Conclusion For gene expression data of human blood samples, topological features have encoded unique information that are absent in temporal features. Using a collaborative fusion strategy, spatio-temporal representations extracted from whole blood expression data have improved accuracy and reliability in detecting PD-PACE subtypes.
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spelling doaj-art-d3de941ab9854e9ba3badbaebf75dda62025-08-20T03:06:36ZengBMCBMC Bioinformatics1471-21052025-08-0126111810.1186/s12859-025-06181-6DualGCN-GE: integration of spatiotemporal representations from whole-blood expression data with dual-view graph convolution network to identify Parkinson’s disease subtypesWei Zhang0Zeqi Xu1Ruochen Yu2Mingfeng Jiang3Qi Dai4College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityCollege of Life Science and Biomedicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityAbstract Background As a typical type of neurodegenerative disorders, Parkinson’s disease(PD) is characterized by significant clinical and progression heterogeneity. Based on gene expression data, reliable detection of PACE subtypes in Parkinson’s disease(PD-PACE) has played a crucial role in addressing the heterogeneity of this disease. Established machine learning approaches generally adopt single-view learning schemes and employ temporal features underlying RNA sequencing data. Topological features, which are associated with gene graphs and cell graphs, were disregarded in previous works. Actually, Parkinson-specific gene graphs(PGG) could act as topological features to capture structural changes of molecular networks. Results Under the framework of dual-view graph learning, this study proposes a DualGCN-GE method to identify multiple PD-PACE subtypes from whole-blood expression data, with regards of progression velocity. This DualGCN-GE method has proposed dual-view graph convolution network(GCN) to integrate temporal and topological features underlying whole-blood expression data, thus detecting PD-PACE subtypes. Experimental analysis of three benchmark datasets has validated the effectiveness and advantage of the DualGCN-GE method in the disease subtype detection task. Conclusion For gene expression data of human blood samples, topological features have encoded unique information that are absent in temporal features. Using a collaborative fusion strategy, spatio-temporal representations extracted from whole blood expression data have improved accuracy and reliability in detecting PD-PACE subtypes.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-025-06181-6Dual-view graph learningParkinson-specific gene graphsSpatiotemporal representationsWhole-blood expression dataDisease subtype detectionParkinson-specific gene graphs
spellingShingle Wei Zhang
Zeqi Xu
Ruochen Yu
Mingfeng Jiang
Qi Dai
DualGCN-GE: integration of spatiotemporal representations from whole-blood expression data with dual-view graph convolution network to identify Parkinson’s disease subtypes
BMC Bioinformatics
Dual-view graph learning
Parkinson-specific gene graphs
Spatiotemporal representations
Whole-blood expression data
Disease subtype detection
Parkinson-specific gene graphs
title DualGCN-GE: integration of spatiotemporal representations from whole-blood expression data with dual-view graph convolution network to identify Parkinson’s disease subtypes
title_full DualGCN-GE: integration of spatiotemporal representations from whole-blood expression data with dual-view graph convolution network to identify Parkinson’s disease subtypes
title_fullStr DualGCN-GE: integration of spatiotemporal representations from whole-blood expression data with dual-view graph convolution network to identify Parkinson’s disease subtypes
title_full_unstemmed DualGCN-GE: integration of spatiotemporal representations from whole-blood expression data with dual-view graph convolution network to identify Parkinson’s disease subtypes
title_short DualGCN-GE: integration of spatiotemporal representations from whole-blood expression data with dual-view graph convolution network to identify Parkinson’s disease subtypes
title_sort dualgcn ge integration of spatiotemporal representations from whole blood expression data with dual view graph convolution network to identify parkinson s disease subtypes
topic Dual-view graph learning
Parkinson-specific gene graphs
Spatiotemporal representations
Whole-blood expression data
Disease subtype detection
Parkinson-specific gene graphs
url https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-025-06181-6
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