A causal discovery approach for streamline ion channels selection to improve drug-induced TdP risk assessment

Published in IEEE Xplore2023, 2023

Torsade de Pointes (TdP) is an extremely serious drug-induced cardiac side effect, which is related to abnormal repolarizations in single cells, and the minimum set of ion channels needed to correctly assess TdP risk is still an open question. In this work, we propose to apply the causal discovery method ICA-Linear Non-Gaussian Acyclic Model (ICA-LiNGAM) to uncover the relations across the 7 ion channels identified by the Comprehensive in vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA) initiative as potentially related to the induction of TdP.

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Recommended citation: Al-Ali, S., Llopis-Lorente, J., Mora, M. T., Sermesant, M., Trénor, B., Balelli, I. (2023). A causal discovery approach for streamline ion channels selection to improve drug-induced TdP risk assessment. IEEE Xplore2023 - Computing in Cardiology (CinC) 2023.