A New Risk Chart of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Men by an Innovative Algorithm: A Pilot Study

Title:A New Risk Chart of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Men by an Innovative Algorithm: A Pilot Study

Volume: 12 Issue: 3

Author(s): Federico Licastro, Manuela Ianni, Gianluca Campo, Roberto Ferrari, Elisa Porcellini, Massimo Buscema and Enzo Grossi

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Keywords: Acute myocardial infarction, disease’s risk, gender, genotype, phenotype, statistical algorithms.

Abstract: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a common and complex disease; pathogenesis of AMI is not completely understood and genetic, clinical and phenotypic variables are involved in the disease’s history.

The aim of this paper was to assess: 1) the predictive capacity of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in consistently distinguishing the two different conditions (AMI or control). 2) the identification of the variables with the maximal amount of relevant information for AMI.

Genetic variances in inflammatory genes, along with clinical and classical risk factors from 149 AMI patients and 72 healthy subjects were investigated. From the data base of this case/control study 36 genetic, clinical and phenotypic variables were selected. The TWIST system, an evolutionary algorithm able to remove redundant and noisy information from complex data sets, further selected 18 variables. Moreover, fitness, sensitivity, specificity, overall accuracy and areas under the receiver-operating curves (AUC) of the 18 selected variables associated with AMI risk were investigated.

Our findings showed that ANNs are useful in distinguishing risk factors selectively associated with the disease. Finally, the new mix of variables, including classical risk factors and genetic markers, generated a new risk cluster of variables able to discriminate between AMI and control subjects with an overall accuracy of 90%.

This approach may be used to assess individual AMI risk in unaffected subjects with increased risk of the disease such as, first relative with positive parental history of cardiovascular diseases.

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Licastro Federico, Ianni Manuela, Campo Gianluca, Ferrari Roberto, Porcellini Elisa, Buscema Massimo and Grossi Enzo, A New Risk Chart of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Men by an Innovative Algorithm: A Pilot Study, Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine 2014; 12 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1875692113666150116232904