title: Microarray enriched gene rank.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We develop a new concept that reflects how genes are connected based on microarray data using the coefficient of determination (the squared Pearson correlation coefficient). Our gene rank combines a priori knowledge about gene connectivity, say, from the Gene Ontology (GO) database, and the microarray expression data at hand, called the microarray enriched gene rank, or simply gene rank (GR). GR, similarly to Google PageRank, is defined in a recursive fashion and is computed as the left maximum eigenvector of a stochastic matrix derived from microarray expression data. An efficient algorithm is devised that allows computation of GR for 50 thousand genes with 500 samples within minutes on a personal computer using the public domain statistical package R.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Computation of GR is illustrated with several microarray data sets. In particular, we apply GR (1) to answer whether bad genes are more connected than good genes in relation with cancer patient survival, (2) to associate gene connectivity with cluster/subtypes in ovarian cancer tumors, and to determine whether gene connectivity changes (3) from organ to organ within the same organism and (4) between organisms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We have shown by examples that findings based on GR confirm biological expectations. GR may be used for hypothesis generation on gene pathways. It may be used for a homogeneous sample or for comparison of gene connectivity among cases and controls, or in longitudinal setting.
authors: Department of Biomedical Data Science, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755 NH USA.
authors: Eugene
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authors: Demidenko
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