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- Title
Mixed-model coexpression: calculating gene coexpression while accounting for expression heterogeneity.
- Authors
Furlotte, Nicholas A; Kang, Hyun Min; Ye, Chun; Eskin, Eleazar
- Abstract
The analysis of gene coexpression is at the core of many types of genetic analysis. The coexpression between two genes can be calculated by using a traditional Pearson's correlation coefficient. However, unobserved confounding effects may cause inflation of the Pearson's correlation so that uncorrelated genes appear correlated. Many general methods have been suggested, which aim to remove the effects of confounding from gene expression data. However, the residual confounding which is not accounted for by these generic correction procedures has the potential to induce correlation between genes. Therefore, a method that specifically aims to calculate gene coexpression between gene expression arrays, while accounting for confounding effects, is desirable.
- Publication
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2011, Vol 27, Issue 13, pi288
- ISSN
1367-4811
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btr221