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Zhao CY, Hao Y, Wang Y, Varga JJ, Stecenko AA, Goldberg JB, Brown SP. Microbiome Data Enhances Predictive Models of Lung Function in People With Cystic Fibrosis. J Infect Dis 2020; 223:S246-S256. [PMID: 33330902 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Microbiome sequencing has brought increasing attention to the polymicrobial context of chronic infections. However, clinical microbiology continues to focus on canonical human pathogens, which may overlook informative, but nonpathogenic, biomarkers. We address this disconnect in lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). METHODS We collected health information (lung function, age, and body mass index [BMI]) and sputum samples from a cohort of 77 children and adults with CF. Samples were collected during a period of clinical stability and 16S rDNA sequenced for airway microbiome compositions. We use ElasticNet regularization to train linear models predicting lung function and extract the most informative features. RESULTS Models trained on whole-microbiome quantitation outperformed models trained on pathogen quantitation alone, with or without the inclusion of patient metadata. Our most accurate models retained key pathogens as negative predictors (Pseudomonas, Achromobacter) along with established correlates of CF disease state (age, BMI, CF-related diabetes). In addition, our models selected nonpathogen taxa (Fusobacterium, Rothia) as positive predictors of lung health. CONCLUSIONS These results support a reconsideration of clinical microbiology pipelines to ensure the provision of informative data to guide clinical practice.
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Affiliation(s)
- Conan Y Zhao
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Emory + Children's Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Disease Research, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Emory + Children's Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Disease Research, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Division of Pulmonary, Allergy/Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Emory + Children's Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Disease Research, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy/Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Emory + Children's Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Disease Research, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy/Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Emory + Children's Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Disease Research, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Emory + Children's Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Disease Research, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Chowdhury S, Chatterjee S, Mallick H, Banerjee P, Garai B. Group regularization for zero-inflated poisson regression models with an application to insurance ratemaking. J Appl Stat 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2018.1555232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Shrabanti Chowdhury
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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