Title
Fully moderated t-statistic in linear modeling of mixed effects for differential expression analysis.
Abstract
Gene expression profiling experiments with few replicates lead to great variability in the estimates of gene variances. Toward this end, several moderated t-test methods have been developed to reduce this variability and to increase power for testing differential expression. Most of these moderated methods are based on linear models with fixed effects where residual variances are smoothed under a hierarchical Bayes framework. However, they are inadequate for designs with complex correlation structures, therefore application of moderated methods to linear models with mixed effects are needed for differential expression analysis. We demonstrated the implementation of the fully moderated t-statistic method for linear models with mixed effects, where both residual variances and variance estimates of random effects are smoothed under a hierarchical Bayes framework. We compared the proposed method with two current moderated methods and show that the proposed method can control the expected number of false positives at the nominal level, while the two current moderated methods fail. We proposed an approach for testing differential expression under complex correlation structures while providing variance shrinkage. The proposed method is able to improve power by moderation and controls the expected number of false positives properly at the nominal level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1186/s12859-019-3248-9
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fully moderated T-statistic, Linear mixed-effects model, Variance shrinkage, Expected number of false positives
Random effects model,Residual,Biology,Linear model,Expected value,t-statistic,Statistics,Genetics,Nominal level,False positive paradox,Bayes' theorem
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
suppl
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lianbo Yu1111.41
Jianying Zhang200.34
Guy N. Brock31289.43
Soledad A. Fernandez441.86