Bayesian models and meta analysis for multiple tissue gene expression data following corticosteroid administration

Background: This paper addresses key biological problems and statistical issues in the analysis of large gene expression data sets that describe systemic temporal response cascades to therapeutic doses in multiple tissues such as liver, skeletal muscle, and kidney from the same animals. Affymetrix time course gene expression data U34A are obtained from three different tissues including kidney, liver and muscle. Our goal is not only to find the concordance of gene in different tissues, identify the common differentially expressed genes over time and also examine the reproducibility of the findings by integrating the results through meta analysis from multiple tissues in order to gain a significant increase in the power of detecting differentially expressed genes over time and to find the differential differences of three tissues responding to the drug. Results and conclusion: Bayesian categorical model for estimating the proportion of the 'call' are used for pre-screening gen...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Yulan Liang, Arpad Kelemen
• Keywords: BMCBI 2008, Expressed Genes, Gene Expression Data, Multiple Tissues