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A Bayesian And Covariate Approach To Combine Results From Multiple Microarray Studies, John R. Stevens, R. W. Doerge

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

The growing popularity of microarray technology for testing changes in gene expression has resulted in multiple laboratories independently seeking to identify genes related to the same disease in the same organism. Despite the uniform nature of the technology, chance variation and fundamental differences between laboratories can result in considerable disagreement between the lists of significant candidate genes from each laboratory. By adjusting for known differences between laboratories through the use of covariates and employing a Bayesian framework to effectively account for between-laboratory variability, the results of multiple similar studies can be systematically combined via a meta-analysis. Meta-analyses yield additional information …