title: Filtering genes to improve sensitivity in oligonucleotide microarray data analysis.
abstract: Many recent microarrays hold an enormous number of probe sets, thus raising many practical and theoretical problems in controlling the false discovery rate (FDR). Biologically, it is likely that most probe sets are associated with un-expressed genes, so the measured values are simply noise due to non-specific binding; also many probe sets are associated with non-differentially-expressed (non-DE) genes. In an analysis to find DE genes, these probe sets contribute to the false discoveries, so it is desirable to filter out these probe sets prior to analysis. In the methodology proposed here, we first fit a robust linear model for probe-level Affymetrix data that accounts for probe and array effects. We then develop a novel procedure called FLUSH (Filtering Likely Uninformative Sets of Hybridizations), which excludes probe sets that have statistically small array-effects or large residual variance. This filtering procedure was evaluated on a publicly available data set from a controlled spiked-in experiment, as well as on a real experimental data set of a mouse model for retinal degeneration. In both cases, FLUSH filtering improves the sensitivity in the detection of DE genes compared to analyses using unfiltered, presence-filtered, intensity-filtered and variance-filtered data. A freely-available package called FLUSH implements the procedures and graphical displays described in the article.
authors: Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics-Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors: Stefano
authors: S
authors: Calza
authors: Wolfgang
authors: W
authors: Raffelsberger
authors: Alexander
authors: A
authors: Ploner
authors: Jose
authors: J
authors: Sahel
authors: Thierry
authors: T
authors: Leveillard
authors: Yudi
authors: Y
authors: Pawitan
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D016014:Linear Models; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D012162:Retinal Degeneration / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes
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