Journal
IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 423-431Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2007.1078
Keywords
microarray; gene expression; gene ranking; reproducibility; differential expression; bootstrap
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A principal goal of microarray studies is to identify the genes showing differential expression under distinct conditions. In such studies, the selection of an optimal test statistic is a crucial challenge, which depends on the type and amount of data under analysis. Although previous studies on simulated or spike-in data sets do not provide practical guidance on how to choose the best method for a given real data set, we introduce an enhanced reproducibility-optimization procedure, which enables the selection of a suitable gene-ranking statistic directly from the data. In comparison with existing ranking methods, the reproducibility-optimized statistic shows good performance consistently under various simulated conditions and on Affymetrix spike-in data set. Further, the feasibility of the novel statistic is confirmed in a practical research setting using data from an in-house cDNA microarray study of asthma-related gene expression changes. These results suggest that the procedure facilitates the selection of an appropriate test statistic for a given data set without relying on a priori assumptions, which may bias the findings and their interpretation. Moreover, the general reproducibility-optimization procedure is not limited to detecting differential expression only but could be extended to a wide range of other applications as well.
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