title: Combining multiple microarray studies using bootstrap meta-analysis.
abstract: Microarray technology has enabled us to simultaneously measure the expression of thousands of genes. Using this high-throughput data collection, we can examine subtle genetic changes between biological samples and build predictive models for clinical applications. Although microarrays have dramatically increased the rate of data collection, sample size is still a major issue in feature selection. Previous methods show that microarray data combination is successful in improving selection when using z-scores and fold change. We propose a wrapper based gene selection technique that combines bootstrap estimated classification errors for individual genes across multiple datasets. The bootstrap is an unbiased estimator of classification error and has been shown to be effective for small sample data. Coupled with data combination across multiple data sets, we show that this meta-analytic approach improves gene selection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30318 USA. andreabarrett@gatech.edu
authors.forename: Andrea B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Barrett
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Phan
authors.forename: May D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity