A method for computing the overall statistical significance of a treatment effect among a group of genes

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL.2, 2006, Pages

  Delongchamp, Robert ^a   Lee, Taewon ^a   Velasco, Cruz ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CELLULAR COMPONENTS; META-ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR FUNCTION; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE FUNCTION; HYPOTHESIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BIOLOGY; BIOMETRY; DNA MICROARRAY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY;

BIOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947301898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-S2-S11     Document Type: Article

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