Application of reliability coefficients in cDNA microarray data analysis.
STATISTICS IN MEDICINE(2006)
摘要
Gene expression microarray technology has been widely used in areas such as human cancer research to identify molecular characteristics of sample specimens. The microarray study, however, is a very complicated procedure which involves numerous sources of variability that may be either systematic or random. Systematic variation is often eliminated by applying normalization procedures, but at present there are no standard criteria available to evaluate the performance of a particular normalization approach. In this paper, we propose a reliability-type coefficient as a criterion to assess the effectiveness of normalization procedures in eliminating systematic variation. Simulation studies show that this criterion performs reasonably well in a range of settings. The proposed method is illustrated using a subset of an ongoing microarray study of soft-tissue sarcoma. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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ANOVA,dye-swap,gene expression,gene selection,normalization,soft-tissue sarcoma
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