Journal
ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 777-800Publisher
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
DOI: 10.1214/13-AOAS683
Keywords
Genomics; meta-analysis; order statistic; p-value
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- NIH [R21MH094862, R01DA016750]
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Meta-analysis techniques have been widely developed and applied in genomic applications, especially for combining multiple transcriptomic studies. In this paper we propose an order statistic of p-values (rth ordered p-value, rOP) across combined studies as the test statistic. We illustrate different hypothesis settings that detect gene markers differentially expressed (DE) in all studies, in the majority of studies or in one or more studies, and specify rOP as a suitable method for detecting DE genes in the majority of studies. We develop methods to estimate the parameter r in rOP for real applications. Statistical properties such as its asymptotic behavior and a one-sided testing correction for detecting markers of concordant expression changes are explored. Power calculation and simulation show better performance of rOP compared to classical Fisher's method, Stouffer's method, minimum p-value method and maximum p-value method under the focused hypothesis setting. Theoretically, rOP is found connected to the naive vote counting method and can be viewed as a generalized form of vote counting with better statistical properties. The method is applied to three microarray meta-analysis examples including major depressive disorder, brain cancer and diabetes. The results demonstrate rOP as a more generalizable, robust and sensitive statistical framework to detect disease-related markers.
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