Title
Rank-invariant resampling based estimation of false discovery rate for analysis of small sample microarray data.
Abstract
The evaluation of statistical significance has become a critical process in identifying differentially expressed genes in microarray studies. Classical p-value adjustment methods for multiple comparisons such as family-wise error rate (FWER) have been found to be too conservative in analyzing large-screening microarray data, and the False Discovery Rate (FDR), the expected proportion of false positives among all positives, has been recently suggested as an alternative for controlling false positives. Several statistical approaches have been used to estimate and control FDR, but these may not provide reliable FDR estimation when applied to microarray data sets with a small number of replicates.We propose a rank-invariant resampling (RIR) based approach to FDR evaluation. Our proposed method generates a biologically relevant null distribution, which maintains similar variability to observed microarray data. We compare the performance of our RIR-based FDR estimation with that of four other popular methods. Our approach outperforms the other methods both in simulated and real microarray data.We found that the SAM's random shuffling and SPLOSH approaches were liberal and the other two theoretical methods were too conservative while our RIR approach provided more accurate FDR estimation than the other approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1186/1471-2105-6-187
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
false discovery rate,false positive,bioinformatics,multiple comparisons,microarray data,family wise error rate,algorithms,gene expression profiling,statistical significance,sample size,microarrays,computational biology,microarray analysis
False coverage rate,Data mining,False discovery rate,Computer science,Per-comparison error rate,Multiple comparisons problem,Bioinformatics,Resampling,Null distribution,Sample size determination,False positive paradox
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
0.45
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nitin Jain1230.45
Hyungjun Cho21048.44
Michael O'Connell3230.45
Jae K. Lee417015.49