A transcriptomics data-driven gene space accurately predicts liver cytopathology and drug-induced liver injury

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  • Pekka Kohonen
  • Juuso A Parkkinen
  • Egon L Willighagen
  • Rebecca Ceder
  • Wennerberg, Krister
  • Samuel Kaski
  • Roland C Grafström

Predicting unanticipated harmful effects of chemicals and drug molecules is a difficult and costly task. Here we utilize a 'big data compacting and data fusion'-concept to capture diverse adverse outcomes on cellular and organismal levels. The approach generates from transcriptomics data set a 'predictive toxicogenomics space' (PTGS) tool composed of 1,331 genes distributed over 14 overlapping cytotoxicity-related gene space components. Involving ∼2.5 × 108 data points and 1,300 compounds to construct and validate the PTGS, the tool serves to: explain dose-dependent cytotoxicity effects, provide a virtual cytotoxicity probability estimate intrinsic to omics data, predict chemically-induced pathological states in liver resulting from repeated dosing of rats, and furthermore, predict human drug-induced liver injury (DILI) from hepatocyte experiments. Analysing 68 DILI-annotated drugs, the PTGS tool outperforms and complements existing tests, leading to a hereto-unseen level of DILI prediction accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
JournalNature Communications
Volume8
Pages (from-to)15932
ISSN2041-1723
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Jul 2017
Externally publishedYes

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