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Using epigenetic networks for the analysis of movement associatedwith levodopa therapy for Parkinson’s disease

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posted on 2023-05-20, 04:30 authored by Turner, AP, Lones, MA, Trefzer, MA, Smith, SL, Jamieson, S, Jane AltyJane Alty, Cosgrove, J, Tyrrell, AM
Levodopa is a drug that is commonly used to treat movement disorders associated with Parkinson's disease. Its dosage requires careful monitoring, since the required amount changes over time, and excess dosage can lead to muscle spasms known as levodopa-induced dyskinesia. In this work, we investigate the potential for using epiNet, a novel artificial gene regulatory network, as a classifier for monitoring accelerometry time series data collected from patients undergoing levodopa therapy. We also consider how dynamical analysis of epiNet classifiers and their transitions between different states can highlight clinically useful information which is not available through more conventional data mining techniques. The results show that epiNet is capable of discriminating between different movement patterns which are indicative of either insufficient or excessive levodopa.

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Publication title

Biosystems

Volume

146

Pagination

35-42

ISSN

0303-2647

Department/School

Wicking Dementia Research Education Centre

Publisher

Elsevier Ireland Ltd.

Place of publication

Ireland

Rights statement

© 2016 The Author(s). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Repository Status

  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Diagnosis of human diseases and conditions