Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on May 19, 2005
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti496
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1 Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University, 601 N. 30th St., Suite 6787, Omaha, NE 68131
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
The most widely used statistical methods for finding differentially expressed genes (DEGs) are essentially univariate. In the study, we presented a new T2 statistic for analyzing microarray data. We implemented our method via a multiple forward search (MFS) algorithm that is designed for selecting a subset of feature vectors in high-dimensional microarray datasets. The proposed T2 statistic is a corollary to that originally developed for multivariate analyses and possesses two prominent statistical properties. First, our method takes into account multidimensional structure of microarray data. The utilization of the information hidden in gene interactions allows for finding genes whose differential expressions are not marginally detectable in univariate testing methods. Second, the statistic has a close relationship to discriminant analyses for classification of gene expression patterns. Our search algorithm sequentially maximizes gene expression difference/distance between two groups of genes. Including such a set of DEGs into initial feature variables may increase the power of classification rules. We validated our method by using a spike-in HGU95 dataset from Affymetrix. The utility of the new method was demonstrated with applications to the analyses of gene expression patterns in human liver cancers and breast cancers. Extensive bioinformatics analyses and cross-validation of DEGs identified in the application datasets showed significant advantages of our new algorithm. Availability: The program for the method proposed in this article and supplementary material are available at http://orclinux.creighton.edu/hotelling/index.htm.
Received October 13, 2004
Revised April 15, 2005
Accepted April 15, 2005
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Hotelling's T2 multivariate profiling for detecting differential expression in microarrays
2 The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P.R.China; Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University, 601 N. 30th St., Suite 6787, Omaha, NE 68131; Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P. R. China
Hong-Wen Deng, E-mail: deng{at}creighton.edu
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