Recent Advances in Biomedical Signal Processing

Are We to Integrate Previous Information into Microarray Analyses? Interpretation of a Lmx1b-Knockout Experiment

Author(s): Florian Blochl, Anne Rascle, Jurgen Kastner, Ralph Witzgall, Elmar W. Lang and Fabian J. Theis

Pp: 157-170 (14)

DOI: 10.2174/978160805218911101010157

* (Excluding Mailing and Handling)

Abstract

A general question in the analysis of biological experiments is how to maximize statistical information present in the data while at the same time keeping bias at a minimal level. This can be reformulated as the question whether to perform differential analysis or only explorative screens. In this contribution we discuss this old paradigm in the context of a differential microarray experiment. The transcription factor Lmx1b is knocked out in a mouse model in order to gain further insight into gene regulation taking place in Nail-patella syndrome, a disease caused by mutations of this gene. We review several statistical methods and contrast them with supervised learning on the two differential modes and unsupervised, explorative analysis. Moreover we propose a novel method for analyzing single clusters by projecting them back on specific experiments. Our reference is the identification of three well-known targets. We find that by integrating all results we are able to confirm these target genes. Furthermore, hypotheses on further potential target genes are formulated.


Keywords: microarray analysis, Nail-patella syndrome, Lmx1b, linear mixing models, recursive feature extraction

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