Discovery of drug–omics associations in type 2 diabetes with generative deep-learning models

Rosa Lundbye Allesøe, Agnete Troen Lundgaard, Ricardo Hernández Medina, Alejandro Aguayo-Orozco, Joachim Johansen, Jakob Nybo Nissen, Caroline Brorsson, Gianluca Mazzoni, Lili Niu, Jorge Hernansanz Biel, Valentas Brasas, Henry Webel, Michael Eriksen Benros, Anders Gorm Pedersen, Piotr Jaroslaw Chmura, Ulrik Plesner Jacobsen, Andrea Mari, Robert Koivula, Anubha Mahajan, Ana VinuelaJuan Fernandez Tajes, Sapna Sharma, Mark Haid, Mun Gwan Hong, Petra B. Musholt, Federico De Masi, Josef Vogt, Helle Krogh Pedersen, Valborg Gudmundsdottir, Angus Jones, Gwen Kennedy, Jimmy Bell, E. Louise Thomas, Gary Frost, Henrik Thomsen, Elizaveta Hansen, Tue Haldor Hansen, Henrik Vestergaard, Mirthe Muilwijk, Marieke T. Blom, Leen M. ‘t Hart, Torben Hansen, Jochen M. Schwenk, Jerzy Adamski, Mark I. McCarthy, Ewan Pearson, Karina Banasik, Simon Rasmussen*, Søren Brunak*, Paul W. Franks

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Abstract

The application of multiple omics technologies in biomedical cohorts has the potential to reveal patient-level disease characteristics and individualized response to treatment. However, the scale and heterogeneous nature of multi-modal data makes integration and inference a non-trivial task. We developed a deep-learning-based framework, multi-omics variational autoencoders (MOVE), to integrate such data and applied it to a cohort of 789 people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes with deep multi-omics phenotyping from the DIRECT consortium. Using in silico perturbations, we identified drug–omics associations across the multi-modal datasets for the 20 most prevalent drugs given to people with type 2 diabetes with substantially higher sensitivity than univariate statistical tests. From these, we among others, identified novel associations between metformin and the gut microbiota as well as opposite molecular responses for the two statins, simvastatin and atorvastatin. We used the associations to quantify drug–drug similarities, assess the degree of polypharmacy and conclude that drug effects are distributed across the multi-omics modalities.

Original languageEnglish
JournalNature Biotechnology
Volume41
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)399-408
ISSN1087-0156
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

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