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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 38, Issue 11, Pages 3523-3532Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq045
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB 760, RO 2005/4-1]
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Here we present model-based gene set analysis (MGSA) that analyzes all categories at once by embedding them in a Bayesian network, in which gene response is modeled as a function of the activation of biological categories. Probabilistic inference is used to identify the active categories. The Bayesian modeling approach naturally takes category overlap into account and avoids the need for multiple testing corrections met in single-category enrichment analysis. On simulated data, MGSA identifies active categories with up to 95% precision at a recall of 20% for moderate settings of noise, leading to a 10-fold precision improvement over single-category statistical enrichment analysis. Application to a gene expression data set in yeast demonstrates that the method provides high-level, summarized views of core biological processes and correctly eliminates confounding associations.
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