Ensuring the statistical soundness of competitive gene set approaches: Gene filtering and genome-scale coverage are essential

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Tripathi, Shailesh ^a   Glazko, Galina V ^b   Emmert Streib, Frank ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING FRAMEWORK; COMPETITIVE GENE SET; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FILTERING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84876544061     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt054     Document Type: Article

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