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BMI 704: Data Science for Medical Decision Making

Harvard Medical School

Spring 2019

Course Directors: Chirag J. Patel, Arjun K. Manrai

Course Description

Have you ever Googled a health-related question and been dumbfounded by the hits? Gotten a lab test result and wondered if it applies to a person like you? Wondered what an "odds ratio" for a genetic variant you inherited is? Explanations of why we are who we are, and what diseases we might get, and why some of us are at risk, are often unsatisfactory. It’s time to become an active consumer: in this course, we will develop skills in querying large health data streams to make informed decisions through the lens of data science. This course will survey the current data and methodological approaches to conduct integrative high-throughput investigations merging genomic, exposomic, and phenomic datasets to discover new associations with disease and health. Students will be introduced to statistical decision theory and how modern data science and machine learning approaches can help improve rational medical decision making. Students will be encouraged to find publicly available data (e.g. CDC, NIH dbGaP data) and formulate an original research project for submission to a journal or as a proceedings article.Learning

Goals:

  1. Develop basic skills in biomedical data science, including R/RStudio, Python and cloud-based infrastructure.
  2. Understand how decision theory and machine learning can enhance clinical care.
  3. Develop your own prediction algorithms that integrate exposomic, genomic, and phenomic data.
  4. Execute data-driven methods on current day computing clusters.
  5. Interpret statistical estimates and biomedical findings in the published literature (and the lay press).

Course Calendar

Date (Week) Topics Readings (before lecture) Assignments (due 11:00pm)
1/31
(1)		 Data-driven investigations into fundamental questions in biomedicine
  1. Introduction to the course
  2. Overview of P = G + E (Phenotype = Genotype + Environment)
  3. Conducting reproducible research
  4. Data science in R/RStudio and cloud computing
  5. Introduction to traditional observational and agnostic ‘omic (e.g. GWAS) study designs
 Recommended:
(Wickham and Grolemund 2016;
Paul R Burton et al. 2007;
Pearson and Manolio 2008)		 Assignment 1 out (GWAS and polygenic risk prediction)
2/7
(2)		 Genome-wide association studies (GWAS): an example of data-driven biomedicine for G in P
  1. Practical data science with the tidyverse [guest lecture: Chirag Lakhani]
  2. High-throughput genomics: dissecting G in P with GWAS
  3. GWAS fundamentals: p-values, Bonferroni, odds ratios, and qq-plots
  4. LD, population stratification, and confounding
  5. Polygenic risk prediction
 Required:
(Wickham and Grolemund 2016;
Paul R Burton et al. 2007;
Pearson and Manolio 2008;
Price et al. 2006;
Khera et al. 2018;
Vittinghoff et al. 2005: Chapters 1-5)

Recommended:
(Visscher et al. 2017, 2012;
Risch and Merikangas 1996)
2/14
(3)		 Dissecting E in P & Machine Learning Part 1
  1. History of modifiable E associations (SES, vitamins, physical activity, air pollution)
  2. Comparison with G associations
  3. Intro to EWAS
  4. Intro to machine learning and fundamental concepts
  5. The bias-variance tradeoff
  6. Regularization (e.g. L1, L2)
 Required:
(Marmot et al. 1978;
Dockery et al. 1993;
Ioannidis et al. 2009;
Freedman et al. 2012;
Patel et al. 2012)

Recommended:
(Lee et al. 2018;
Kong et al. 2018;
Manson et al. 2018;
Di et al. 2017;
Patel and Manrai 2015)		 Assignment 2 out (EWAS)
2/21
(4)		 Why Most Published Research Findings are False
  1. Introduction to “Why Most Research Findings are False”
  2. Types of study bias
  3. Correcting for multiple tests (FWER, FDR)
  4. Meta-research: research on research
  5. Randomization: how to interpret a clinical trial
 Required:
(Ioannidis 2005;
Benjamini and Hochberg 1995;
Patel, Burford, and Ioannidis 2015;
Manson et al. 2019)

Recommended:
(Manson et al. 2018;
Estruch et al. 2018;
Video: https://goo.gl/REHTc2)		 Guided project out (Field-wide meta-analysis + PheWAS in NHANES/UKB)
2/28
(5)		 Decision Making in Medicine
  1. Intro to decision science in medicine
  2. Categorical and probabilistic reasoning in medicine
  3. Cognitive biases in medical decision making (e.g. numeracy)
  4. Supporting physicians at the point of care
  5. Guest Lecture: Vinay Prasad (http://www.vinayakkprasad.com/)
 Required:
(Szolovits and Pauker 1978;
Tversky and Kahneman 1974;
Manrai et al. 2016;
Prasad et al. 2013)

Recommended:
(Bates et al. 1998;
Mandl and Kohane 2012)
3/7
(6)		 Clinical Risk Scores and Machine Learning Part 2
  1. Introduction to time-series analysis: the Kaplan-Meier estimator and Cox regression
  2. Disease Risk Scores (e.g. Charlson comorbidity index)
  3. Heritability and AUC
  4. Practical machine learning
  5. Evaluating model fit
 Required:
(James et al. 2013: Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5.1, 6;
Horvath 2013;
Lloydjones et al. 2004;
Meigs et al. 2008;
Charlson et al. 1987)

Recommended:
(Vittinghoff et al. 2005: Chapter 6;
Lakhani 2019)		 Lab out (machine learning)
3/14
(7)		 Bringing it All Together
  1. Short student presentations and real-time meta-analysis
  2. Press-reported results: fake news?
  3. Emerging topics in observational datasets: Guest Lecturer: Mauricio Santillana, PhD
 Required:
(Baicker et al. 2013;
Collins and Varmus 2015;
Schoenfeld and Ioannidis 2012)

Recommended:Video: https://goo.gl/rnruXK

Datasets Used in this Course:

Descriptions below are adapted from the URLs.

Genetic Data

Dataset Description URL
Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) Early example of the feasibility of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) https://www.wtccc.org.uk/
1000 Genomes Project Phase 3 Data A catalogue of individual-level genomic variation from 2,504 individuals across 26 worldwide populations http://www.internationalgenome.org/
Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) Database that aggregates allele frequencies from exome and genome sequencing data for >140,000 indiivduals across 8 populations http://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/
NIH dbGaP Archive of data and results from many genotype-phenotype studies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gap
NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog Curated collection of published GWAS results https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/
Broad Institute Polygenic Risk Scores Variants and weights for polygenic risk scores in Khera et al. 2018 http://www.broadcvdi.org/informational/data
ClinVar Database that aggregates assertions about pathogenicity of genetic variants across testing laboratories https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/
UK Biobank U.K. cohort studying the health and well-being of 500,000 volunteer participants https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/

Exposure Data

Dataset Description URL
CDC National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Series of ongoing studies combining interviews and physical exams designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.htm
Demographic and Health Surveys Nationally-representative household surveys that provide data for a wide range of health and nutrition indicators https://dhsprogram.com/what-we-do/survey-Types/dHs.cfm
American Community Survey (ACS) Survey compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau with demographic data https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/

Phenotype Data

Dataset Description URL
CDC National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Series of ongoing studies combining interviews and physical exams designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.htm
500 Cities Project City and census tract-level small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use for the largest 500 cities in the United States. https://www.cdc.gov/500cities/index.htm
UK Biobank U.K. cohort studying the health and well-being of 500,000 volunteer participants https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/
Demographic and Health Surveys Nationally-representative household surveys that provide data for a wide range of health and nutrition indicators https://dhsprogram.com/what-we-do/survey-Types/dHs.cfm

Readings

Papers
Baicker, Katherine, Sarah L. Taubman, Heidi L. Allen, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan H. Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Eric C. Schneider, et al. 2013. “The Oregon Experiment--Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes.” The New England Journal of Medicine 368 (18): 1713–22.
Bates, D. W., L. L. Leape, D. J. Cullen, N. Laird, L. A. Petersen, J. M. Teich, E. Burdick, et al. 1998. “Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry and a Team Intervention on Prevention of Serious Medication Errors.” JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 280 (15): 1311–16.
Benjamini, Y., and Y. Hochberg. 1995. “Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach to Multiple Testing.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical Methodology 57 (January): 289–300.
Charlson, M. E., P. Pompei, K. L. Ales, and C. R. MacKenzie. 1987. “A New Method of Classifying Prognostic Comorbidity in Longitudinal Studies: Development and Validation.” Journal of Chronic Diseases 40 (5): 373–83.
Collins, Francis S., and Harold Varmus. 2015. “A New Initiative on Precision Medicine.” The New England Journal of Medicine 372 (9): 793–95.
Di, Qian, Yan Wang, Antonella Zanobetti, Yun Wang, Petros Koutrakis, Christine Choirat, Francesca Dominici, and Joel D. Schwartz. 2017. “Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population.” The New England Journal of Medicine 376 (26): 2513–22.
Dockery, D. W., C. A. Pope 3rd, X. Xu, J. D. Spengler, J. H. Ware, M. E. Fay, B. G. Ferris Jr, and F. E. Speizer. 1993. “An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities.” The New England Journal of Medicine 329 (24): 1753–59.
Estruch, Ramón, Emilio Ros, Jordi Salas-Salvadó, Maria-Isabel Covas, Dolores Corella, Fernando Arós, Enrique Gómez-Gracia, et al. 2018. “Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil or Nuts.” The New England Journal of Medicine 378 (25): e34.
Freedman, Neal D., Yikyung Park, Christian C. Abnet, Albert R. Hollenbeck, and Rashmi Sinha. 2012. “Association of Coffee Drinking with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality.” The New England Journal of Medicine 366 (20): 1891–1904.
Horvath, Steve. 2013. “DNA Methylation Age of Human Tissues and Cell Types.” Genome Biology 14 (10): R115.
Ioannidis, John P. A. 2005. “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” PLoS Medicine 2 (8): e124.
Ioannidis, John P. A., En Yun Loy, Richie Poulton, and Kee Seng Chia. 2009. “Researching Genetic versus Nongenetic Determinants of Disease: A Comparison and Proposed Unification.” Science Translational Medicine 1 (7): 7ps8.
James, Gareth, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani. 2013. An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in R. Springer Texts in Statistics 103. Springer New York.
Khera, Amit V., Mark Chaffin, Krishna G. Aragam, Mary E. Haas, Carolina Roselli, Seung Hoan Choi, Pradeep Natarajan, et al. 2018. “Genome-Wide Polygenic Scores for Common Diseases Identify Individuals with Risk Equivalent to Monogenic Mutations.” Nature Genetics 50 (9): 1219–24.
Kong, Augustine, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Michael L. Frigge, Bjarni J. Vilhjalmsson, Alexander I. Young, Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson, Stefania Benonisdottir, et al. 2018. “The Nature of Nurture: Effects of Parental Genotypes.” Science 359 (6374): 424–28.
Lee, James J., Robbee Wedow, Aysu Okbay, Edward Kong, Omeed Maghzian, Meghan Zacher, Tuan Anh Nguyen-Viet, et al. 2018. “Gene Discovery and Polygenic Prediction from a Genome-Wide Association Study of Educational Attainment in 1.1 Million Individuals.” Nature Genetics 50 (8): 1112–21.
Lloydjones, D., P. Wilson, M. Larson, A. Beiser, E. Leip, R. Dagostino, and D. Levy. 2004. “Framingham Risk Score and Prediction of Lifetime Risk for Coronary Heart disease1.” The American Journal of Cardiology 94 (1): 20–24.
Mandl, K. D., and I. S. Kohane. 2012. “Escaping the EHR Trap—the Future of Health IT.” The New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1203102.
Manrai, Arjun K., Birgit H. Funke, Heidi L. Rehm, Morten S. Olesen, Bradley A. Maron, Peter Szolovits, David M. Margulies, Joseph Loscalzo, and Isaac S. Kohane. 2016. “Genetic Misdiagnoses and the Potential for Health Disparities.” The New England Journal of Medicine 375 (7): 655–65.
Manson, JoAnn E., Nancy R. Cook, I-Min Lee, William Christen, Shari S. Bassuk, Samia Mora, Heike Gibson, et al. 2018. “Vitamin D Supplements and Prevention of Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease.” The New England Journal of Medicine, November. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1809944.
Manson, JoAnn E. et al. 2019. “Marine N-3 Fatty Acids and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer.” The New England Journal of Medicine 380 (1): 23–32.
Marmot, M. G., G. Rose, M. Shipley, and P. J. Hamilton. 1978. “Employment Grade and Coronary Heart Disease in British Civil Servants.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 32 (4): 244–49.
Meigs, J. B., P. Shrader, L. M. Sullivan, J. B. McAteer, C. S. Fox, J. Dupuis, A. K. Manning, et al. 2008. “Genotype Score in Addition to Common Risk Factors for Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes.” The New England Journal of Medicine 359 (21): 2208–19.
Patel, Chirag J., Belinda Burford, and John P. A. Ioannidis. 2015. “Assessment of Vibration of Effects due to Model Specification Can Demonstrate the Instability of Observational Associations.” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 68 (June): 1046–58.
Patel, Chirag J., Mark R. Cullen, John P. A. Ioannidis, and Atul J. Butte. 2012. “Systematic Evaluation of Environmental Factors: Persistent Pollutants and Nutrients Correlated with Serum Lipid Levels.” International Journal of Epidemiology 41 (3): 828–43.
Patel, Chirag J., and Arjun K. Manrai. 2015. “Development of Exposome Correlation Globes to Map out Environment-Wide Associations.” Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 231–42.
Paul R Burton, David G Clayton, Lon R Cardon, Nick Craddock, Panos Deloukas, Audrey Duncanson, Dominic P Kwiatkowski, et al. 2007. “Genome-Wide Association Study of 14,000 Cases of Seven Common Diseases and 3,000 Shared Controls.” Nature 447 (7145): 661.
Pearson, Thomas A., and Teri A. Manolio. 2008. “How to Interpret a Genome-Wide Association Study.” JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 299 (11): 1335–44.
Prasad, Vinay, Andrae Vandross, Caitlin Toomey, Michael Cheung, Jason Rho, Steven Quinn, Satish Jacob Chacko, et al. 2013. “A Decade of Reversal: An Analysis of 146 Contradicted Medical Practices.” Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Mayo Clinic 88 (8): 790–98.
Price, Alkes L., Nick J. Patterson, Robert M. Plenge, Michael E. Weinblatt, Nancy A. Shadick, and David Reich. 2006. “Principal Components Analysis Corrects for Stratification in Genome-Wide Association Studies.” Nature Genetics 38 (8): 904–9.
Risch, N., and K. Merikangas. 1996. “The Future of Genetic Studies of Complex Human Diseases.” Science 273 (5281): 1516–17.
Schoenfeld, Jonathan D., and John P. A. Ioannidis. 2012. "Is Everything We Eat Associated with Cancer? A Systematic Cookbook Review--." The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 97 (1): 127–34.
Szolovits, Peter, and S. G. Pauker. 1978. "Categorical and Probabilistic Reasoning in Medical Diagnosis *." Artificial Intelligence 11 (1): 115–44.
Tversky, A., and D. Kahneman. 1974. "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases." Science 185 (4157): 1124–31.
Visscher, Peter M., Matthew A. Brown, Mark I. McCarthy, and Jian Yang. 2012. “Five Years of GWAS Discovery.” American Journal of Human Genetics 90 (1): 7–24.
Visscher, Peter M., Naomi R. Wray, Qian Zhang, Pamela Sklar, Mark I. McCarthy, Matthew A. Brown, and Jian Yang. 2017. “10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation.” American Journal of Human Genetics 101 (1): 5–22.
Vittinghoff, Eric, David Glidden, Steve Shiboski, and Charles McCulloch. 2005. Regression Methods in Biostatistics: Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models. New York: Springer.
Wickham, Hadley, and Garrett Grolemund. 2016. R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data. “O’Reilly Media, Inc.”
Paul R Burton, David G Clayton, Lon R Cardon, Nick Craddock, Panos Deloukas, Audrey Duncanson, Dominic P Kwiatkowski, et al. 2007. “Genome-Wide Association Study of 14,000 Cases of Seven Common Diseases and 3,000 Shared Controls.” Nature 447 (7145): 661.
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