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- Title
Enrichment or depletion of a GO category within a class of genes: which test?
- Authors
Isabelle Rivals; Lieng Taing; Marie-Claude Potier
- Abstract
Motivation: A number of available program packages determine the significant enrichments and/or depletions of GO categories among a class of genes of interest. Whereas a correct formulation of the problem leads to a single exact null distribution, these GO tools use a large variety of statistical tests whose denominations often do not clarify the underlying P-value computations.Summary: We review the different formulations of the problem and the tests they lead to: the binomial, χ2, equality of two probabilities, Fisher's exact and hypergeometric tests. We clarify the relationships existing between these tests, in particular the equivalence between the hypergeometric test and Fisher's exact test. We recall that the other tests are valid only for large samples, the test of equality of two probabilities and the χ2-test being equivalent. We discuss the appropriateness of one- and two-sided P-values, as well as some discreteness and conservatism issues.Contact:isabelle.rivals@espci.frSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
- Publication
Bioinformatics, 2007, Vol 23, Issue 4, p401
- ISSN
1367-4803
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btl633