An ontology-based documentation of data discovery and integration process in cancer outcomes research.
An ontology-based documentation of data discovery and integration process in cancer outcomes research.
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DOI：
10.1186/s12911-020-01270-3
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发表时间：
2020-12-14
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Bian J
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作者：
Zhang H;Guo Y;Prosperi M;Bian J
To reduce cancer mortality and improve cancer outcomes, it is critical to understand the various cancer risk factors (RFs) across different domains (e.g., genetic, environmental, and behavioral risk factors) and levels (e.g., individual, interpersonal, and community levels). However, prior research on RFs of cancer outcomes, has primarily focused on individual level RFs due to the lack of integrated datasets that contain multi-level, multi-domain RFs. Further, the lack of a consensus and proper guidance on systematically identify RFs also increase the difficulty of RF selection from heterogenous data sources in a multi-level integrative data analysis (mIDA) study. More importantly, as mIDA studies require integrating heterogenous data sources, the data integration processes in the limited number of existing mIDA studies are inconsistently performed and poorly documented, and thus threatening transparency and reproducibility. Informed by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) research framework, we (1) reviewed existing reporting guidelines from the Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research (EQUATOR) network and (2) developed a theory-driven reporting guideline to guide the RF variable selection, data source selection, and data integration process. Then, we developed an ontology to standardize the documentation of the RF selection and data integration process in mIDA studies. We summarized the review results and created a reporting guideline—ATTEST—for reporting the variable selection and data source selection and integration process. We provided an ATTEST check list to help researchers to annotate and clearly document each step of their mIDA studies to ensure the transparency and reproducibility. We used the ATTEST to report two mIDA case studies and further transformed annotation results into sematic triples, so that the relationships among variables, data sources and integration processes are explicitly standardized and modeled using the classes and properties from OD-ATTEST. Our ontology-based reporting guideline solves some key challenges in current mIDA studies for cancer outcomes research, through providing (1) a theory-driven guidance for multi-level and multi-domain RF variable and data source selection; and (2) a standardized documentation of the data selection and integration processes powered by an ontology, thus a way to enable sharing of mIDA study reports among researchers.
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影响因子：
39.2
作者：
De Geest S;Zullig LL;Dunbar-Jacob J;Helmy R;Hughes DA;Wilson IB;Vrijens B
通讯作者：
Vrijens B
影响因子：
7.7
作者：
Alonso-Calvo, Raul;Paraiso-Medina, Sergio;Maojo, Victor
通讯作者：
Maojo, Victor
影响因子：
39.2
作者：
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通讯作者：
Moons, Karel G. M.
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作者：
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通讯作者：
Svenson, Lawrence W.
影响因子：
3.8
作者：
Echeverria, Sandra E.;Borrell, Luisa N.;Rhoads, George
通讯作者：
Rhoads, George