面向飞机PHM的大数据分析与人工智能应用

针对新一代电子产品密集型的飞机,其系统结构和失效机理复杂、失效模式多样,传统的方法难以对其进行有效健康管理的现状,因此提出了基于海量数据挖掘的飞机PHM研究。首先从系统结构、服役环境、数据来源与存储方式等角度分析了新一代飞机对海量数据挖掘的应用需求;其次论述了基于海量数据挖掘的关键技术,包括数据的预处理、集成管理、聚类、分类、关联、预测等;最后提出了一种基于私有云的飞机PHM海量数据挖掘平台,详细阐述了该平台的总体框架和软硬件结构,该平台为飞机PHM提供了验证平台,对促进飞机PHM的集成与工程化实现具有重大的军事应用意义。     

Mapping determinants of human gene expression by regional and genome-wide association

To study the genetic basis of natural variation in gene expression, we previously carried out genome-wide linkage analysis and mapped the determinants of approximately 1,000 expression phenotypes. In the present study, we carried out association analysis with dense sets of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers from the International HapMap Project. For 374 phenotypes, the association study was performed with markers only from regions with strong linkage evidence; these regions all mapped close to the expressed gene. For a subset of 27 phenotypes, analysis of genome-wide association was performed with >770,000 markers. The association analysis with markers under the linkage peaks confirmed the linkage results and narrowed the candidate regulatory regions for many phenotypes with strong linkage evidence. The genome-wide association analysis yielded highly significant results that point to the same locations as the genome scans for about 50% of the phenotypes. For one candidate determinant, we carried out functional analyses and confirmed the variation in cis-acting regulatory activity. Our findings suggest that association studies with dense SNP maps will identify susceptibility loci or other determinants for some complex traits or diseases.     

Common genetic variants account for differences in gene expression among ethnic groups

Variation in DNA sequence contributes to individual differences in quantitative traits, but in humans the specific sequence variants are known for very few traits. We characterized variation in gene expression in cells from individuals belonging to three major population groups. This quantitative phenotype differs significantly between European-derived and Asian-derived populations for 1,097 of 4,197 genes tested. For the phenotypes with the strongest evidence of cis determinants, most of the variation is due to allele frequency differences at cis-linked regulators. The results show that specific genetic variation among populations contributes appreciably to differences in gene expression phenotypes. Populations differ in prevalence of many complex genetic diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. As some of these are probably influenced by the level of gene expression, our results suggest that allele frequency differences at regulatory polymorphisms also account for some population differences in prevalence of complex diseases.