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Gene expression in uncollected tissues can be computationally inferred using genotype and expression quantitative trait loci. No methods can infer unmeasured gene expression of multiple tissues with single tissue gene expression profile as input.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Here, we present a Bayesian ridge regression-based method (B-GEX) to infer gene expression profiles of multiple tissues from blood gene expression profile. For each gene in a tissue, a low-dimensional feature vector was extracted from whole blood gene expression profile by feature selection. We used GTEx RNAseq data of 16 tissues to train inference models to capture the cross-tissue expression correlations between each target gene in a tissue and its preselected feature genes in peripheral blood. We compared B-GEX with least square regression, LASSO regression and ridge regression. B-GEX outperforms the other three models in most tissues in terms of mean absolute error, Pearson correlation coefficient and root-mean-squared error. Moreover, B-GEX infers expression level of tissue-specific genes as well as those of non-tissue-specific genes in all tissues. Unlike previous methods, which require genomic features or gene expression profiles of multiple tissues, our model only requires whole blood expression profile as input. B-GEX helps gain insights into gene expressions of uncollected tissues from more accessible data of blood.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>B-GEX is available at https:\/\/github.com\/xuwenjian85\/B-GEX.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btaa239","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,6]],"date-time":"2020-04-06T11:08:23Z","timestamp":1586171303000},"page":"3788-3794","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":43,"title":["Blood-based multi-tissue gene expression inference with Bayesian ridge regression"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"36","author":[{"given":"Wenjian","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory for Genetics of Birth Defects , Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, Genetics and Birth Defects Control Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing 100045, China"}]},{"given":"Xuanshi","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory for Genetics of Birth Defects , Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, Genetics and Birth Defects Control Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing 100045, China"}]},{"given":"Fei","family":"Leng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory for Genetics of Birth Defects , Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, Genetics and Birth Defects Control Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing 100045, China"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory for Genetics of Birth Defects , Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, Genetics and Birth Defects Control Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing 100045, China"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023063011070514100_btaa239-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"D991","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gks1193","article-title":"NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets\u2013update","volume":"41","author":"Barrett","year":"2013","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res"},{"key":"2023063011070514100_btaa239-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"666","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ccell.2015.09.018","article-title":"RNA-Seq of tumor-educated platelets enables blood-based pan-cancer, multiclass, and molecular pathway cancer diagnostics","volume":"28","author":"Best","year":"2015","journal-title":"Cancer Cell"},{"key":"2023063011070514100_btaa239-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1605","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMoa031046","article-title":"Use of gene-expression profiling to identify prognostic subclasses in adult acute myeloid leukemia","volume":"350","author":"Bullinger","year":"2004","journal-title":"N. 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