期刊
BIOMETRICS
卷 73, 期 1, 页码 31-41出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12552
关键词
Differential expression analysis; Gene clustering; High dimension; Hypothesis testing; Parametric bootstrap; Sparsity
资金
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JBK160159, JBK150501, JBK140507, JBK120509]
- NSFC [11501462]
- Center of Statistical Research at SWUFE
- Australian Research Council
- NSF [IIS-1545994, NSF DMS-1512267]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences [1512267] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1545994] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Comparing large covariance matrices has important applications in modern genomics, where scientists are often interested in understanding whether relationships (e.g., dependencies or co-regulations) among a large number of genes vary between different biological states. We propose a computationally fast procedure for testing the equality of two large covariance matrices when the dimensions of the covariance matrices are much larger than the sample sizes. A distinguishing feature of the new procedure is that it imposes no structural assumptions on the unknown covariance matrices. Hence, the test is robust with respect to various complex dependence structures that frequently arise in genomics. We prove that the proposed procedure is asymptotically valid under weak moment conditions. As an interesting application, we derive a new gene clustering algorithm which shares the same nice property of avoiding restrictive structural assumptions for high-dimensional genomics data. Using an asthma gene expression dataset, we illustrate how the new test helps compare the covariance matrices of the genes across different gene sets/pathways between the disease group and the control group, and how the gene clustering algorithm provides new insights on the way gene clustering patterns differ between the two groups. The proposed methods have been implemented in an R-package HDtest and are available on CRAN.
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