An integrated statistical approach to compare transcriptomics data across experiments: A case study on the identification of candidate target genes of the transcription factor PPARα

Ullah, Mohammad Ohid, Müller, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5930-9905 and Hooiveld, Guido J. E. J. (2012) An integrated statistical approach to compare transcriptomics data across experiments: A case study on the identification of candidate target genes of the transcription factor PPARα. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, 6. pp. 145-154. ISSN 1177-9322

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Abstract

An effective strategy to elucidate the signal transduction cascades activated by a transcription factor is to compare the transcriptional profiles of wild type and transcription factor knockout models. Many statistical tests have been proposed for analyzing gene expression data, but most tests are based on pair-wise comparisons. Since the analysis of microarrays involves the testing of multiple hypotheses within one study, it is generally accepted that one should control for false positives by the false discovery rate (FDR). However, it has been reported that this may be an inappropriate metric for comparing data across different experiments. Here we propose an approach that addresses the above mentioned problem by the simultaneous testing and integration of the three hypotheses (contrasts) using the cell means ANOVA model. These three contrasts test for the effect of a treatment in wild type, gene knockout, and globally over all experimental groups. We illustrate our approach on microarray experiments that focused on the identification of candidate target genes and biological processes governed by the fatty acid sensing transcription factor PPARα in liver. Compared to the often applied FDR based across experiment comparison, our approach identified a conservative but less noisy set of candidate genes with same sensitivity and specificity. However, our method had the advantage of properly adjusting for multiple testing while integrating data from two experiments, and was driven by biological inference. Taken together, in this study we present a simple, yet efficient strategy to compare differential expression of genes across experiments while controlling for multiple hypothesis testing.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Gastroenterology and Gut Biology
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Metabolic Health
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2014 11:36
Last Modified: 06 Jun 2024 14:46
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47650
DOI: 10.4137/BBI.S9529

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