netMUG: a novel network-guided multi-view clustering workflow for dissecting genetic and facial heterogeneity

Link to bioRxiv paper:
http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.05.04.539350v1?rss=1
Authors: Li, Z., Melograna, F., Hoskens, H., Duroux, D., Marazita, M. L., Walsh, S., Weinberg, S. M., Shriver, M. D., Müller-Myhsok, B., Claes, P., Van Steen, K.
Abstract:
Multi-view data offer advantages over single-view data for characterizing individuals, which is crucial in precision medicine toward personalized prevention, diagnosis, or treatment follow-up. Here, we develop a network-guided multi-view clustering framework named netMUG to identify actionable subgroups of individuals. This pipeline first adopts sparse multiple canonical correlation analysis to select multi-view features possibly informed by extraneous data, which are then used to construct individual-specific networks (ISNs). Finally, the individual subtypes are automatically derived by hierarchical clustering on these network representations. We applied netMUG to a dataset containing genomic data and facial images to obtain BMI-informed multi-view strata and showed how it could be used for a refined obesity characterization. Benchmark analysis of netMUG on synthetic data with known strata of individuals indicated its superior performance compared with both baseline and benchmark methods for multi-view clustering. In addition, the real-data analysis revealed subgroups strongly linked to BMI and genetic and facial determinants of these classes. NetMUG provides a powerful strategy, exploiting individual-specific networks to identify meaningful and actionable strata. Moreover, the implementation is easy to generalize to accommodate heterogeneous data sources or highlight data structures.
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