Abstract
Molecular disease mechanisms typically constitute abnormalities in the regulation of genes producing many kinds of alterations in the expression levels. To identify disease-altered genes better, we have developed an approach that searches for the genes which present a significant rank alteration in the rank of their expression profiles, by comparing an altered rank with another gene. The approach provides groups of genes and assigns a statistical measure of significance to each pair of genes selected. The method is evaluated using two experimental sets of microarrays. We investigated the possibility of inferring the rank reverse pairs and its possibility in diagnostic application when there is no prior knowledge of the genes belonging to disease, nor about the structure of gene regulatory network. We also show that rank reverse is a very powerful technique to diagnostic disease in the practical application and could be used prior to traditional biomarker discovery.
Keywords: Rank reverse, gene expression, diagnostic approach, chip, disease-altered gene
Current Bioinformatics
Title: Microarray Data Analysis to Find Diagnostic Approach and Identify Families of Disease-Altered Genes Based on Rank-Reverse of Gene Expression
Volume: 4 Issue: 3
Author(s): Wenguang Zhang, Jinquan Li, Rui Su and Wu Jianghong
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Keywords: Rank reverse, gene expression, diagnostic approach, chip, disease-altered gene
Abstract: Molecular disease mechanisms typically constitute abnormalities in the regulation of genes producing many kinds of alterations in the expression levels. To identify disease-altered genes better, we have developed an approach that searches for the genes which present a significant rank alteration in the rank of their expression profiles, by comparing an altered rank with another gene. The approach provides groups of genes and assigns a statistical measure of significance to each pair of genes selected. The method is evaluated using two experimental sets of microarrays. We investigated the possibility of inferring the rank reverse pairs and its possibility in diagnostic application when there is no prior knowledge of the genes belonging to disease, nor about the structure of gene regulatory network. We also show that rank reverse is a very powerful technique to diagnostic disease in the practical application and could be used prior to traditional biomarker discovery.
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Zhang Wenguang, Li Jinquan, Su Rui and Jianghong Wu, Microarray Data Analysis to Find Diagnostic Approach and Identify Families of Disease-Altered Genes Based on Rank-Reverse of Gene Expression, Current Bioinformatics 2009; 4 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157489309789071039
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157489309789071039 |
Print ISSN 1574-8936 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 2212-392X |
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