用图神经网络融合基因与表型数据,预测疾病相似性。
PhenoGnet: A Graph-Based Contrastive Learning Framework for Disease Similarity Prediction
- 构建基因与表型双图结构,通过对比学习对齐嵌入表示。
- 在1100对相似与866对不相似疾病上,AUCPR达0.9012。
- 适用于罕见病研究与精准医疗,可解释性强。
理解疾病相似性对诊断、药物发现和个性化治疗至关重要。我们提出PhenoGnet,一种基于图的对比学习框架,通过整合基因功能互作网络与人类表型本体(HPO)来预测疾病相似性。PhenoGnet包含两个核心组件:分别使用图卷积网络(GCNs)和图注意力网络(GATs)编码基因图与表型图的视图内模型,以及通过共享权重多层感知机(MLP)实现跨视图对齐的视图间模型。模型以已知基因-表型关联作为正样本,随机采样的无关配对作为负样本进行训练。疾病由其关联基因和/或表型的平均嵌入表示,相似性通过余弦相似度计算。在包含1100对相似和866对不相似疾病的标准基准上评估,基于基因的嵌入达到AUCPR 0.9012和AUROC 0.8764,优于现有最先进方法。PhenoGnet能捕捉直接重叠之外的潜在生物关系,为疾病相似性预测提供可扩展且可解释的解决方案,具备推动罕见病研究与精准医学应用的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Understanding disease similarity is critical for advancing diagnostics, drug discovery, and personalized treatment strategies. We present PhenoGnet, a novel graph-based contrastive learning framework designed to predict disease similarity by integrating gene functional interaction networks with the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO). PhenoGnet comprises two key components: an intra-view model that separately encodes gene and phenotype graphs using Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and Graph Attention Networks (GATs), and a cross view model implemented as a shared weight multilayer perceptron (MLP) that aligns gene and phenotype embeddings through contrastive learning. The model is trained using known gene phenotype associations as positive pairs and randomly sampled unrelated pairs as negatives. Diseases are represented by the mean embeddings of their associated genes and/or phenotypes, and pairwise similarity is computed via cosine similarity. Evaluation on a curated benchmark of 1,100 similar and 866 dissimilar disease pairs demonstrates strong performance, with gene based embeddings achieving an AUCPR of 0.9012 and AUROC of 0.8764, outperforming existing state of the art methods. Notably, PhenoGnet captures latent biological relationships beyond direct overlap, offering a scalable and interpretable solution for disease similarity prediction. These results underscore its potential for enabling downstream applications in rare disease research and precision medicine.
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