Hotelling's T2 multivariate profiling for detecting differential expression in microarrays

Yan Lu, Peng Yuan Liu, Peng Xiao, Hong Wen Deng

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Abstract

Summary: The most widely used statistical methods for finding differentially expressed genes (DEGs) are essentially univariate. In this study, we present a new T2 statistic for analyzing microarray data. We implemented our method using 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 by application 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 the significant advantages of our new algorithm.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3105-3113
Number of pages9
JournalBioinformatics
Volume21
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 15 2005
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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