B4021 - longitudinal modeling of high-dimensional molecular measurements in birth cohort studies - 07/11/2022

B number: 
B4021
Principal applicant name: 
Dennis Wang | Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (Singapore)
Co-applicants: 
Dr Mauricio Alvarez, Ai Ling Teh, Dr Arthur Leroy, Dr Pan Hong, Dr Varsha Gupta, Michelle Kee, Dr Evelyn Lau
Title of project: 
longitudinal modeling of high-dimensional molecular measurements in birth cohort studies
Proposal summary: 

Our group at the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences and the University of Manchester have received funding from the Wellcome Trust to investigate the machine learning modelling techniques for high-dimensional measurements from population studies. Recently, high-throughput 'omics technologies have allowed us to collect large numbers of molecular measurements from a single sample. Analysing these large datasets poses a problem, because existing techniques do not allow us to analyse all measurements jointly as outcomes. We will develop a statistical technique for jointly analysing large numbers of molecular measurements, using recent advances in statistical inference, as well as applying prior knowledge to reduce the number of relationships between measurements that needs to be explored. Additionally, we will develop a method for designing longitudinal studies to gain optimal information about these high-dimensional outcomes. The benefits of our approach will be two-fold: First, in allowing us to gain additional information about the relationships between longitudinal measurements, and second in improving the design of future studies, which will lead to time and cost savings.

Impact of research: 
The benefits of our approach will be two-fold: First, in allowing us to gain additional information about the relationships between longitudinal measurements, and second in improving the design of future studies, which will lead to time and cost savings for future population studies.
Date proposal received: 
Monday, 31 October, 2022
Date proposal approved: 
Monday, 7 November, 2022
Keywords: 
Bioinformatics, This is only for methodology development, but we will test models of association between molecular factors and any disease outcome observed in >100 subjects., Computer simulations/modelling/algorithms, Epigenetics, Expression, Genome wide association study, Statistical methods