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Searching for differential expression: a non-parametric approach
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Microarray experiments are being widely used in medical and biological research. The main features of these studies are the large number of variables (genes) involved and the low number of replicates (arrays). It seems clear that the most appropriate models, when looking for detecting differences in gene expression are those that exploit the most useful information to compensate for the lack of replicates. On the other hand, the control of the error in the decision process plays an important role for the high number of simultaneous statistical tests (one for each gene), so that concepts such as the false discovery rate (FDR) take a special importance. One of the alternatives for the analysis of the data in these experiments is based on the calculation of statistics derived from modifications of the classical methods used in this type of problems (moderated-t, B-statistic). Nonparametric techniques have been also proposed [B. Efron, R. Tibshirani, J.D. Storey, andV. Tusher, Empirical Bayes analysis of a microarray experiment, J. Amer. Stat. Assoc. 96 (2001), pp. 1151 1160; W. Pan, J. Lin, and C.T. Le, A mixture model approach to detecting differentially expressed genes with microarray data, Funct. Integr. Genomics 3 (2003), pp. 117 124], allowing the analysis without assuming any prior condition about the distribution of the data, which make them especially suitable in such situations. This paper presents a new method to detect differentially expressed genes based on non-parametric density estimation by a class of functions that allow us to define a distance between individuals in the sample (characterized by the coordinates of the individual (gene) in the dual space tangent to the manifold of parameters) [A. Miñarro and J.M. Oller, Some remarks on the individuals-score distance and its applications to statistical inference, Qüestiió, 16 (1992), pp. 43 57]. From these distances, we designed the test to determine the rejection region based on the control of FDR.
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ORTEGA-SERRANO, I., RUIZ DE VILLA, Carmen and MIÑARRO ALONSO, Antonio. Searching for differential expression: a non-parametric approach. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 2012. Vol. 83, num. 9, pags. 1661-1670. ISSN 0094-9655. [consulted: 8 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/95833