title: Diagnostic plots for detecting outlying slides in a cDNA microarray experiment.
abstract: Different sources of systematic and random error variations are often observed in cDNA microarray experiments. A simple scatter plot is commonly used to examine outlying slides that have unusual expression patterns or larger variability than other slides. These outlying slides tend to have large impacts on the subsequent analyses, such as identification of differentially expressed genes and clustering analysis. However, it is difficult to select outlying slides rigorously and consistently based on subjective human pattern recognition on their scatter plots. A graphical method and a rigorous diagnostic measure are proposed to detect outlying slides. The proposed graphical method is easy to implement and shown to be quite effective in detecting outlying slides in real microarray data sets. This diagnostic measure is also informative to compare variability among slides. Two cDNA microarray data sets are carefully examined to illustrate the proposed approach. A 3840-gene microarray experiment for neuronal differentiation of cortical stem cells and a 2076-gene microarray experiment for anticancer compound time-course expression of the NCI-60 cancer cell lines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Korea. tspark@stats.snu.ac.kr
authors.forename: Taesung
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Sung-Gon
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: SeungYeoun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jae K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000378:metabolism; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000378:metabolism; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins