Statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed genes in replicated cDNA microarray experiments
- Author(s)
- Dudoit, S; Yang, YH; Callow, MJ; Speed, TP;
- Details
- Publication Year 2002-01-01,Volume 12,Issue #1,Page 111-139
- Journal Title
- STATISTICA SINICA
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- DNA microarrays are a new and promising biotechnology which allows the monitoring of expression levels in cells for thousands of genes simultaneously. The present paper describes statistical methods for the identification of differentially expressed genes in replicated cDNA microarray experiments. Although it is not the main focus of the paper, new methods for the important pre-processing steps of image analysis and normalization are proposed. Given suitably normalized data, the biological question of differential expression is restated as a problem in multiple hypothesis testing: the simultaneous test for each gene of the null hypothesis of no association between the expression levels and responses or covariates of interest. Differentially expressed genes are identified based on adjusted p-values for a multiple testing procedure which strongly controls the family-wise Type I error rate and takes into account the dependence structure between the gene expression levels. No specific parametric form is assumed for the distribution of the test statistics and a permutation procedure is used to estimate adjusted p-values. Several data displays are suggested for the visual identification of differentially expressed genes and of important features of these genes. The above methods are applied to microarray data from a study of gene expression in the livers of mice with very low HDL cholesterol levels. The genes identified using data from multiple slides are compared to those identified by recently published single-slide methods.
- Publisher
- STATISTICA SINICA
- Keywords
- OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAYS; HUMAN CANCER; PATTERNS
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Creation Date: 2002-01-01 12:00:00