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Power Boosting In Genome-Wide Studies Via Methods For Multivariate Outcomes, Mary J. Emond
Power Boosting In Genome-Wide Studies Via Methods For Multivariate Outcomes, Mary J. Emond
UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series
Whole-genome studies are becoming a mainstay of biomedical research. Examples include expression array experiments, comparative genomic hybridization analyses and large case-control studies for detecting polymorphism/disease associations. The tactic of applying a regression model to every locus to obtain test statistics is useful in such studies. However, this approach ignores potential correlation structure in the data that could be used to gain power, particularly when a Bonferroni correction is applied to adjust for multiple testing. In this article, we propose using regression techniques for misspecified multivariate outcomes to increase statistical power over independence-based modeling at each locus. Even when the outcome …
Differential Expression With The Bioconductor Project, Anja Von Heydebreck, Wolfgang Huber, Robert Gentleman
Differential Expression With The Bioconductor Project, Anja Von Heydebreck, Wolfgang Huber, Robert Gentleman
Bioconductor Project Working Papers
A basic, yet challenging task in the analysis of microarray gene expression data is the identification of changes in gene expression that are associated with particular biological conditions. We discuss different approaches to this task and illustrate how they can be applied using software from the Bioconductor Project. A central problem is the high dimensionality of gene expression space, which prohibits a comprehensive statistical analysis without focusing on particular aspects of the joint distribution of the genes expression levels. Possible strategies are to do univariate gene-by-gene analysis, and to perform data-driven nonspecific filtering of genes before the actual statistical analysis. …