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Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn053
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Robustified MANOVA with applications in detecting differentially expressed genes from oligonucleotide arrays

Jin Xu 1,* and Xinping Cui 2,*

1Department of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
2Department of Statistics, University of California Riverside, Riverside 92521, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Prof. Xinping Cui, E-mail: xinping.cui{at}ucr.edu


  Abstract

Motivation: Oligonucleotide arrays such as Affymetrix GeneChips use multiple probes, or a probe set, to measure the abundance of mRNA of every gene of interest. Some analysis methods attempt to summarize the multiple observations into one single score before conducting further analysis such as detecting differentially expressed genes (DEG), clustering and classification. However, there is a risk of losing a significant amount of information and consequently reaching inaccurate or even incorrect conclusions during this data reduction.

Results: We developed a novel statistical method called robustified multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) based on the traditional MANOVA model and permutation test to detect DEG for both oneway and two-way cases. It can be extended to detect some special patterns of gene expression through profile analysis across k (≥ 2) populations. The method utilizes probe level data and requires no assumptions about the distribution of the data set. We also propose a method of estimating the null distribution using quantile normalization in contrast to the ‘pooling’ method (Section 3.1). Monte Carlo simulation and real data analysis are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method comparing with the ‘pooling’ method and the usual ANOVA test based on the summarized scores. It is found that the new method successfully detects DEG under desired false discovery rate and is more powerful than the competing method especially when the number of groups is small.

Availability: The package of robustified MANOVA can be downloaded from http://faculty.ucr.edu/xpcui/software.

Contact: jxu{at}stat.ecnu.edu.cn, xinping.cui{at}ucr.edu

Associate Editor: Dr. trey Ideker

Received on December 3, 2007; revised on December 3, 2007; accepted on February 4, 2008

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