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What Is The Best Reference Rna? And Other Questions Regarding The Design And Analysis Of Two-Color Microarray Experiments, Kathleen F. Kerr, Kyle A. Serikawa, Caimiao Wei, Mette A. Peters, Roger E. Bumgarner
What Is The Best Reference Rna? And Other Questions Regarding The Design And Analysis Of Two-Color Microarray Experiments, Kathleen F. Kerr, Kyle A. Serikawa, Caimiao Wei, Mette A. Peters, Roger E. Bumgarner
UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series
The reference design is a practical and popular choice for microarray studies using two-color platforms. In the reference design, the reference RNA uses half of all array resources, leading investigators to ask: What is the best reference RNA? We propose a novel method for evaluating reference RNAs and present the results of an experiment that was specially designed to evaluate three common choices of reference RNA. We found no compelling evidence in favor of any particular reference. In particular, a commercial reference showed no advantage in our data. Our experimental design also enabled a new way to test the effectiveness …