Outcome‐guided sparse K‐means for disease subtype discovery via integrating phenotypic data with high‐dimensional transcriptomic data

Lingsong Meng, Dorina Avram, George Tseng and Zhiguang Huo

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 2022, vol. 71, issue 2, 352-375

Abstract: The discovery of disease subtypes is an essential step for developing precision medicine, and disease subtyping via omics data has become a popular approach. While promising, subtypes obtained from existing approaches are not necessarily associated with clinical outcomes. With the rich clinical data along with the omics data in modern epidemiology cohorts, it is urgent to develop an outcome‐guided clustering algorithm to fully integrate the phenotypic data with the high‐dimensional omics data. Hence, we extended a sparse K‐means method to an outcome‐guided sparse K‐means (GuidedSparseKmeans) method. An unified objective function was proposed, which was comprised of (i) weighted K‐means to perform sample clusterings; (ii) lasso regularizations to perform gene selection from the high‐dimensional omics data; and (iii) incorporation of a phenotypic variable from the clinical dataset to facilitate biologically meaningful clustering results. By iteratively optimizing the objective function, we will simultaneously obtain a phenotype‐related sample clustering results and gene selection results. We demonstrated the superior performance of the GuidedSparseKmeans by comparing with existing clustering methods in simulations and applications of high‐dimensional transcriptomic data of breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Our algorithm has been implemented into an R package, which is publicly available on GitHub ( https://github.com/LingsongMeng/GuidedSparseKmeans).

Date: 2022
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