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Gene-pair based statistical methods for testing gene set enrichment in microarray gene expression studies

Gene set enrichment analysis aims to discover sets of genes, such as biological pathways or protein complexes, which may show moderate but coordinated differentiation across experimental conditions. The existing gene set enrichment approaches utilize single gene statistic as a measure of differentiation for individual genes.
These approaches do not utilize any inter-gene correlations, but it has been known that genes in a pathway often interact with each other.
Motivated by the need for taking gene dependence into account, we propose a novel gene set enrichment algorithm, where the gene-gene correlation is addressed via a gene-pair representation strategy. Relying on an appropriately defined gene pair statistic, the gene set statistic is formulated using a competitive null hypothesis.
Extensive simulation studies show that our proposed approach can correctly control the type I error (false positive rate), and retain good statistical power for detecting true differential expression. The new method is also applied to analyze several gene expression datasets. / October 2016

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/31796
Date16 September 2016
CreatorsZhao, Kaiqiong
ContributorsHu, Pingzhao (Biochemistry and Medical Genetics), Liu, Xiao-Qing (Biochemistry and Medical Genetics) Acar, Elif (Statistics)
Source SetsUniversity of Manitoba Canada
Detected LanguageEnglish

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