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ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS
Volume 5, Issue 2A, Pages 994-1019Publisher
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS393
Keywords
Meta-analysis; adaptively weighted statistics; genomic study
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- NIH [KL2 RR024154-02]
- University of Pittsburgh
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Global expression analyses using microarray technologies are becoming more common in genomic research, therefore, new statistical challenges associated with combining information from multiple studies must be addressed. In this paper we will describe our proposal for an adaptively weighted (AW) statistic to combine multiple genomic studies for detecting differentially expressed genes. We will also present our results from comparisons of our proposed AW statistic to Fisher's equally weighted (EW), Tippett's minimum p-value (minP) and Pearson's (PR) statistics. Due to the absence of a uniformly powerful test, we used a simplified Gaussian scenario to compare the four methods. Our AW statistic consistently produced the best or near-best power for a range of alternative hypotheses. AW-obtained weights also have the additional advantage of filtering discordant biomarkers and providing natural detected gene categories for further biological investigation. Here we will demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed AW statistic based on a mix of power analyses, simulations and applications using data sets for multi-tissue energy metabolism mouse, multi-lab prostate cancer and lung cancer.
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