Detecting differential patterns of interaction in molecular pathways.

We consider statistical inference for potentially heterogeneous patterns of association characterizing the expression of bio-molecular pathways across different biologic conditions. We discuss a modeling approach based on Gaussian-directed acyclic graphs and provide computational and methodological details needed for posterior inference. Our application finds motivation in reverse phase protein array data from a study on acute myeloid leukemia, where interest centers on contrasting refractory versus relapsed patients. We illustrate the proposed method through both synthetic and case study data.

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